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<sect1 id="zend.mail.sending">
    <title>Sending via SMTP</title>

    <para>
        To send mail via SMTP, <classname>Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp</classname> needs to be created
        and registered with <classname>Zend_Mail</classname> before the
        <methodname>send()</methodname> method is called. For all remaining
        <methodname>Zend_Mail::send()</methodname> calls in the current script, the SMTP transport
        will then be used:
    </para>

    <example id="zend.mail.sending.example-1">
        <title>Sending E-Mail via SMTP</title>

        <programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
$tr = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('mail.example.com');
Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport($tr);
]]></programlisting>
    </example>

    <para>
        The <methodname>setDefaultTransport()</methodname> method and the constructor of
        <classname>Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp</classname> are not expensive. These two lines can be
        processed at script setup time (e.g., config.inc or similar) to configure the behavior of
        the <classname>Zend_Mail</classname> class for the rest of the script. This keeps
        configuration information out of the application logic - whether mail is sent via SMTP or
        <ulink url="http://php.net/mail"><methodname>mail()</methodname></ulink>, what mail server
        is used, etc.
    </para>
</sect1>
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