At a guess, the OP probably means SMTP authentication rather than "authorised", which needs the Pear extensions rather just the mail() function
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You can still use the mail function if you set the auth_username and auth_password field in your php.ini. If you can't or don't want to edit your php.ini try imap_mail. You'll need to connect to the mailbox with imap_open before sending your email.