Finally got to fixing my SMTP server from since I moved away for University.

I had it to send to Gmail first, but I didn't secure my server so I think what ended up happening was people started sending THOUSANDS of emails to me server, and my server just relayed them to gmail. Soooo my account got banned but I told them I didn't log in for a while and they re-enabled it for some reason

So fuck the gmails, do not like how their SMTP works, everything has to be from my gmail or else it says (by the way of ) rather than just having my which is annoying as hell.

So I got my sympatico smtp back there. That one works great. I got around the STARTTLS issue and php.ini (without shitty phpmailer) by just installing SMTP into my IIS, restricting access to localhost 127.0.0.1, then putting in authentication, use TLS, port 587 for delivery settings and smarthost smtphm.sympatico.ca.

That worked out nicely, wasn't that hard, I remember having a lot of trouble with it before and I can't remember why, that is why I didn't do it til now.

ANYWAY. It is done. BRING IT ON INTERNETS