====== Sending ======

For your phpList system to be able to deliver emails, you need to set up a way for it to send.

There are three different ways to send email.

===== SMTP =====

To send using SMTP, the minimum setting is [[system:config:PHPMAILERHOST]] which you need to set to your SMTP hostname. To use a different port than the default port 25, set [[system:config:PHPMAILERPORT]]

You can also use SMTP-Authentication, by setting [[system:config:phpmailer_smtpuser]] and [[system:config:phpmailer_smtppassword]]

==== Multi SMTP ====

To use multiple SMTP servers, you can set the PHPMAILERHOST to be a semi-colon delimited list of servers. For example

<code>
define('PHPMAILERHOST','smtp1.domain.com;smtp2.domain.com');
</code>

and it can also contain ports, for example

<code>
define('PHPMAILERHOST','smtp1.domain.com:26;smtp2.domain.com:27');
</code>

==== Test vs blast ====

To use a different SMTP server for testing or processing the queue, you can set 

[[system:config:PHPMAILERTESTHOST]] and [[system:config:PHPMAILERTESTPORT]]

or alternatively 

[[system:config:PHPMAILERBLASTHOST]] and [[system:config:PHPMAILERBLASTPORT]]

both of which have the same options as [[system:config:PHPMAILERHOST]] and will default to the value of [[system:config:PHPMAILERHOST]] if not defined.

==== Authenticated SMTP ====

To use a username and password for SMTP authentication set the following in your config file:

<code>
$phpmailer_smtpuser = 'smtpuser';
$phpmailer_smtppassword = 'smtppassword';
</code>


===== Mail =====

If [[system:config:PHPMAILERHOST]] is not set or empty, the default [[http://php.net/mail|PHP mail command]] will be used. Sending mail will then depend on your PHP installation.

===== Amazon SES =====
 
To send using Amazon SES, set the following config values for

[[system:config:AWS_ACCESSKEYID]] and [[system:config:AWS_SECRETKEY]]

Also, make sure to set [[system:config:PHPMAILERHOST]] to be empty.