title: Setting up a Ubuntu/Apache/PHP machine to send email
body: <p>I am working for a small Ho Chi Minh City company whose only server was just one old small computer. Now just a few months later, we are expanding rapidly and one of the requirements for new users is to require them to verify their email addresses.</p>
  
  <p>There are no special programs on the Ubuntu box, instead the only thing I did on the actual server was re-format the entire hard drive from windows XP and installed Natty Narwhal on it, then install Apache and PHPMYADMIN.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to have PHP to send out an email to both the user and the administrators as soon as somebody applies for membership. But I have no idea what I need to do to start. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on what I need to set up first would be humbly appreciated; I am not looking for a step by step, just some tips to point me in the right direction.</p>
  
  <p>-Duong Van</p>