Configure LAMP stack to use internal mail relay without....

Does anybody know of a way i can configure my new LAMP stack to use the companys internal mail relay without having to implement postfix, or sendmail? I did already try to implement send mail recently, and its very confusing to me since i have never set up a mail server, and i tried to implement postfix, SOHO i think was the wiki i used, and that never got done either. It seems incredibly cryptic to someone who even has tons of server experience, just not the email portion. Maybe the wikis are just written for those who have more experience in making SSL certs, and being more versed in MX records, and DNS for email specific things. etc...
Since i have not successfully set up a mail server thus far, i dont have enough general mailer / experience to understand the wikis on setting up Sendmail, etc...
My company asked me if i could just use their internal mail relay instead. I would like to know if i still need to set up sendmail to allow PHP mail() function to send out mail, or if theres some configuration somewhere that i can adjust so it can use the existing internal mail relays.
Note, the only thing im trying to achieve here is to get my apps to send out emails for login password management, and error logs.

In my experience an SMTP server is preferable to sendmail/postfix as it is far more portable and robust... (in a web environment) many webhosts, for example, pay no heed to the configuration of sendmail - so code that runs on one host fails on another. PHP mail() can be leveraged to use any backend you like but this typically requires root access (or at least permissions beyond those offered on typical hosting services), and, as said above, does not allow for any useful level of error reporting.
Swiftmailer is (generally) my weapon of choice - unless the particular project has additional PEAR dependencies/requirements that mean it makes sense to stay within the same codebase... not that it (PEAR) is always that consistent anyhow
I can't really offer much in the way of help with cron integration as that is not a route I have taken - it should think it would be pretty trivial (sic )to implement as you build your script... swiftmailer has some pretty neat "live address" checking routines - have a dig through the docs
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