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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Email does not require a server to be sent. If you dont send one, then it is sent directly from your computer. The problem with doing that is that for reasons of spam, mail not sent from well-known servers if often automatically blocked at the reciopients end. Email started out a truly de-centralized, open protocol, now thanks to spam it is largely a centralised IM system.
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Thanks a lot, Kovid.. I finally realized that this must be exactly how it works. I guess I'm getting old, because I have used PHP code to send email years ago, but forgot most of the web programming code I used to do.
I had my friend delete the configuration information, but unfortunately it still didn't work, probably due to either a firewall or ISP blocking. However, he did manage to get it to work by configuring Google security settings to allow the gmail server to accept it.