whether is there any alternative ways for the ViArt Shop application to send out mail from a remote SMTP host other than localhost because my server doesnt support auto send_mail. need to know where to change SMTP server
 
below is the error i encounter during send...
 
PHP Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port

You should try this. http://www.hmailserver.com/
I think it's solve your problem.
 
Regards
Neosim

Hi,
 
SMPT host name and smtp_port can be changed in your php.ini file which stores all setting for your installation of PHP interpreter.
 
WBR,
ViArt Support Team

The shared server that we are currently sitting on had disabled the sendmail function, and, due to it is on a shared environment, the PHP.ini is not editable, is there any work around which able allow us to route the email to another mail server for email sending purpose?"

Hi,
 
Unfortunately ViArt Shop doesn't support an alternative mail function now.
As a solution for now you can implemet your own function like alt_mail(...), place it in common_functions.php and replace all calls to va_mail in shop scripts by your function alt_mail.
 
WBR,
ViArt Support Team