Sending mail after self registration

[michel2013]

Hi all,

I'm struggling with some mail functionality using a gmail (our domain is handled by gmail)  smtp host. I have created a self registration captive portal in pfsense 2.1 and I would like to send the freshly registered users a confirmation with login and password after the online payment is done. So I need to be able to sent out a email within a captive portal php page.

Is it possible to just change the php.ini of PfSense? or do I need to use a certain perl script because I'm using gmail (ssl/tls) and this seems not support with the default php mail() function . I didn't found a clear answer on the forums.

I already take a look at  http://x-ian.net/2012/02/01/pfsense-sending-emails-through-gmail/ . But this seems a little bit to complicated.

I really appreciate if you can point me to the right direction.

Thanks in advance