Send mail with runner mail

On your first question you'll need to install an smtp server on the machine that is sending the email, this will allow you to send it from a local machine, I use XAMPP on my local machine for developing which has mercury bundled with it (http://www.danieltmurphy.com/setting-up-mercury-smtp/) but there are plently of other free servers out there try.
http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html
When I want to include an image in an email I store the image on the website/intranet and then have a absolute url to the image(https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=54717&image=1&table=forumreplies) as the image SRC in the html.
hope that helps

Hello
thank you for taking time to answer me.

however there is already a mail server on the intranet server on whch phprunner is. But I cant use it to send mail. it's a big compagny and I'm not admin. Admin wants to centralized all mail on one server dedicated to that. But I saw phpmail is installed somewhere in phprunner because the registration process use it. I just like to know how I can call the phpmail to define my own smtp server in string.
concerning image, yeah well thats exactly what I cant do. The server on which phprunner is , is a virtual server dedicated to one task for internal hotline purpose. I have no access to other extranet server and admin want everything to be on one unit : no dispatching ressources everywhere.. so I'd like to embededd the image inside the mail.. If phpmail is installed I know this php class can do that .. but dont know exactly how to do it.
thank you anyway.

ok for those interested phpmailer is installed on any phprunner project under /libs/phpmailer
so you can use :
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch

05.
06.$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

07.
08.try {

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$mail->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server

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$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)

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$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication

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$mail->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // sets the SMTP server

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$mail->Port = 26; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

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$mail->Username = "yourname@yourdomain"; // SMTP account username

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$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // SMTP account password

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$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

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$mail->AddAddress('whoto@otherdomain.com', 'John Doe');

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$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

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$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

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$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), advanced';

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$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically

22.

$mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'));

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$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer.gif'); // attachment

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$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); // attachment

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$mail->Send();

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echo "Message Sent OK<P></P>\n";

27.} catch (phpmailerException $e) {

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echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer

29.} catch (Exception $e) {

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echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!

31.}
( code from phpmailer home page)

this way both my question are answered : It can use smtp server that requires identification and it can embedded images ( inline html).

just add a : require ("/libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php"); at the biginning of the event.

I'm afraid you overthinking it a bit. Once you entered SMTP server address in PHPRunner mail settings PHPRunner switches to PHPMailer automatically. No manual coding required.