Mweb hosting and PHP mail

[JiminSA]

Rather an obscure question, but I'll ask it anyway ...
I want to send emails from a website hosted by Mweb. Does the From: email address have to be a legitimate address or does it simply have to contain the specific sites' domain name?

 

[wezzcoetzee]

I had a site hosted with Mweb, could not get emails to send from the website, spoke to the technicians and they told me that my PHP code was failing. I migrated to another host, emails worked perfectly.

I will never use Mweb, I've only ever had issues with them.

 

[neo_]

I remember using mail() back in the day. Hehe!

So far as I know, it should work fine (I'm saying this without giving any consideration to Mweb). That said, I don't really recommend it. I think there's a security issue somewhere there, and many email servers would probably reject such emails. Always go with SMTP, or some other mail API like Mandrill.

 

[Thor]

Rather an obscure question, but I'll ask it anyway ...
I want to send emails from a website hosted by Mweb. Does the From: email address have to be a legitimate address or does it simply have to contain the specific sites' domain name?

Rather use phpmailer with valid smtp settings