email setup

[eluser]johnmerlino[/eluser]
Hey all,

I have to ask a nontechnical person who runs an office what their smtp settings are, such as the host (don't think it's gmail), port, username, and password. But if I outright ask them for this, they won't know what I am talking about, as they won't know what smtp means. So how should I explain it in order to get the information required to send emails via codeigniter like this:

Code:

$config = Array(
                'protocol' => 'smtp',
                'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
                'smtp_port' => 465,
                'smtp_user' => 'xxx',
                'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',
                'mailtype'  => 'html',
                'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
            );

Thanks for response