Mail support with hotmail

[themacdemo84]

Dear,
I am having trouble with sending mail using mail() function under php. The mails doesn't come into my mailbox (hotmail) also not as spam or junkmail. sending to gmail is no problem.
Because the people in my focus group are all hotmail users i have a problem.
The problem is probably caused by homail, but is there something x10hosting can do for me.
At the moment my site is still under construction, but I would like to open it soon. It would be nice if I could also support hotmail. I don't use the mail for spam or something. Just for sending confirmation emails.
I was thinking about using a remote server, the problem is I don't have a mailserver. ini_set("SMTP", "mail.domain.com"); or something like that.

Thanks for replying, Sander

[descalzo]

Hotmail bounces email from the x10hosting mailserver. You should see the returned messages if you go to SquirrelMail via cPanel-->Webmail.

Alternative:
Create a Google Apps for your domain. You can do it with yoursubdomain.x10.bz etc, it does not have to be a regular top level domain.
Follow the instructions there to set up MX records via cPanel. So all email to your domain will go to your Google Apps account and you can send mail by logging in there. Hotmail does not bounce the emails. Bonus: you can have a lot more email accounts for your domain than on x10hosting. You can also set up a catchall account.

To send emails out through Google Apps, get PHPMailer and use that instead of mail().

the username would be "foobar@foo.x10.bz" where that matches an account name on your Google Apps domain.
the host would be "ssl://smtp.gmail.com"
the port would be 465