Bleh! My website hosting provider decided not to allow local server email sending anymore! Hello learning PHPMailer so I can authenticate with an external SMTP server!!

@adam Why not just use a service that can track and such? SendGrid has been my best friend for years. I think I'm still on the free plan. (I sent about 200 emails a year.)

@shawnwildermuth It was easier when the built-in server worked. I guess SendGrid has their own library, huh? With PHPMailer I can connect it to any SMTP account set up with TLS, DMARC, and all that. I can already include IP & timestamps in the emails I get, so I don't know how much more tracking I need.

@adam Sure, I like that it justs queues the email and does retries and such. I don't want to be in the business of worrying about it. Just wanted you to know the options.

@shawnwildermuth Ah, cool. Maybe I'll look into that too. The real issue is I want to integrate with this awesome form code: formspammertrap.com/howitworks Which only works with the Mail() function by default.

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