I’m trying two things,

1 a simple email form where the user who wants to sign up for a mailing list fills out the form and the information gets sent to an email address of mine.

2 an e-card service, the user chooses from four designs that gets sent to an email address that they choose, (I have a rough idea of how to do this but need some help, and would find it a bonus if there was a pre-made script to work with)

What is a good email account to have the first idea sent to (i’ve tried hotmail and yahoo) and should I use the mail() function or phpmailer, I think I need an SMTP server for this and can’t use my webhosers, because I use the freehosting service which turns SMTP off, (I heard something about gmail being possible).

I’m sorry if none of this is clear, but I’m fairly new to PHP