Hi, I'm very new to php and so far so good. I am having one problem though with my mail form. Its very simple and thats all it needs to be, but my host now requires that you authenticate your smtp account to prevent spam. Basically my question is... How?

side note: I have searched google and found nothing that I really understand, just snippets of code with the authenticate in it. To top it off I lost my PHP book somehow.

Thanks for the help.

PHP does not have to use SMTP, if your host has allowed you to use their mail program, you should simply be able to use the mail() function specified in the PHP Online Manual (better than any book!) using it like this:

mail('myAddress@hotmail.com', 'you got mail!', $message, $headers);