As for login, if user & password match, set $_SESSION['user'] to username The PHP manual doesn't really say much of anything. There is nothing noted about versions of PHP at all. Hang on, my understanding may be messing me up. On the 50 a day limit, do you mean 1) 50 separate and distinct uses of the MAIL function 2) one single email to 50 addresses is a limit? Also I am not able to connect via FTP. Isn't my address grvs.heliohost.org?