Send an e-mail to a POP3 E-Mail account

[tech_support]

How would I send e-mails through a POP3 E-Mail account?
Specifically, G-Mail.

[pcbrainbuster]

Can I please be informed on what POP3 is and some other stuff related to e-mail...

[tech_support]

Pfffffffft!

Look it up on Google or Wikipedia.

[pcbrainbuster]

Yeah but doing that in something related to something like email usually results in two much information that does not get to the point which is why I asked you...

[tech_support]

You can't understand this?

Short for Post Office Protocol, a protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Most e-mail applications (sometimes called an e-mail client) use the POP protocol, although some can use the newer IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).

[djr33]

For the original question--

...you can't.
You would need to write a program that logs onto gmail, etc. Have fun.

You can actually specify any from or reply-to email address, but that's phishing. I don't recommend it. If you're just sending from your own email, then that seems reasonable.

[tech_support]

G-Mail allows POP3 access.

[djr33]

Well... yeah.
But this is in the PHP section.

PHP can't just go and access pop3... I don't think, anyway.
Maybe there's an extension.

[tech_support]

Well, according to this: http://au2.php.net/imap
It is.

But I just don't know how to use it

[djr33]

No. From what I understand that allows you to operate an email server on your computer.
You could access you@yoursite.com, not you@gmail.com

Now... perhaps there would be a way to configure the email server to use the specifications provided by google's pop3 access methods, but I really don't know.

Anyway... why?

As I said... just use the from and reply-to headers to manually input your email, then it'll work like that.