Sending email with PHP from an SMTP server

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from    someonelse example com    headers    From      from  echo mail   borutflis1 gmail com    testmailfunction     Oj   headers     I have trouble sending email in PHP  I get an error  SMTP server response  530 SMTP authentication is required   I was under the impression that you can send email without SMTP to verify  I know that this mail will propably get filtered out  but that doesn t matter right now    mail function    For Win32 only    http   php net smtp SMTP   localhost   http   php net smtp-port smtp port   25    For Win32 only    http   php net sendmail-from sendmail from   someonelse example com   This is the setup in the php ini file  How should I set up SMTP  Are there any SMTP  servers that require no verification or must I setup a server myself

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When you are sending an e-mail through a server that requires SMTP Auth, you really need to specify it, and set the host, username and password (and maybe the port if it is not the default one - 25).

For example, I usually use PHPMailer with similar settings to this ones:

$mail = new PHPMailer();

// Settings
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

$mail->Host       = "mail.example.com"; // SMTP server example
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 0;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port       = 25;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "username"; // SMTP account username example
$mail->Password   = "password";        // SMTP account password example

// Content
$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

$mail->send();

You can find more about PHPMailer here: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

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I created a lightweight SMTP Email sender for PHP if anybody needs it here is the URL https   github com jerryurenaa EZMAIL Tested in both environments production and development  I hope it helps new folks looking for a simple solution

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There are some SMTP servers that work without authentication  but if the server requires authentication  there is no way to circumvent that    PHP s built-in mail functions are very limited - specifying the SMTP server is possible in WIndows only  On  nix  mail   will use the OS s binaries   If you want to send E-Mail to an arbitrary SMTP server on the net  consider using a library like SwiftMailer  That will enable you to use  for example  Google Mail s outgoing servers

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The problem is that PHP mail   function has a very limited functionality  There are several ways to send mail from PHP    mail   uses SMTP server on your system  There are at least two servers you can use on Windows  hMailServer and xmail  I spent several hours configuring and getting them up  First one is simpler in my opinion  Right now  hMailServer is working on Windows 7 x64  mail   uses SMTP server on remote or virtual machine with Linux  Of course  real mail service like Gmail doesn t allow direct connection without any credentials or keys  You can set up virtual machine or use one located in your LAN  Most linux distros have mail server out of the box  Configure it and have fun  I use default exim4 on Debian 7 that listens its LAN interface  Mailing libraries use direct connections  Libs are easier to set up  I used SwiftMailer and it perfectly sends mail from Gmail account  I think that PHPMailer is pretty good too    No matter what choice is your  I recommend you use some abstraction layer  You can use PHP library on your development machine running Windows and simply mail   function on production machine with Linux  Abstraction layer allows you to interchange mail drivers depending on system which your application is running on  Create abstract MyMailer class or interface with abstract send   method  Inherit two classes MyPhpMailer and MySwiftMailer  Implement send   method in appropriate ways

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In cases where you are hosting a Wordpress site on Linux and have server access you can save some headaches by installing msmtp which allows you to send via smtp from the standard php mail   function  msmtp is a simpler alternative to postfix which requires a bit more configuration    Here are the steps   Install msmtp  sudo apt-get install msmtp-mta ca-certificates   Create a new configuration file   sudo nano  etc msmtprc      with the following configuration information     Set defaults      defaults    Enable or disable TLS SSL encryption  tls on tls starttls on tls trust file  etc ssl certs ca-certificates crt    Set up a default account s settings  account default host  lt smtp example net gt  port 587 auth on user  lt username example net gt  password  lt password gt  from  lt address-to-receive-bounces example net gt  syslog LOG MAIL   You need to replace the configuration data represented by everything within   lt   and      inclusive  remove these   For host username password  use your normal credentials for sending mail through your mail provider   Tell PHP to use it  sudo nano  etc php5 apache2 php ini   Add this single line   sendmail path    usr bin msmtp -t   Complete documention can be found here   https   marlam de msmtp

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lt  php ini set  SMTP    aspmx l google com    ini set  sendmail from    YOURMAIL gmail com      message    The mail message was sent with the following mail setting  r nSMTP   aspmx l google com r nsmtp port   25 r nsendmail from   YourMail address com     headers    From  YOURMAIL gmail com    mail  Sending provider com    Testing    message   headers   echo  Check your email now     amp lt BR  gt      gt    or  for more details  read on

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For Unix users  mail   is actually using Sendmail command to send email  Instead of modifying the application  you can change the environment  msmtp is an SMTP client with Sendmail compatible CLI syntax which means it can be used in place of Sendmail  It only requires a small change to your php ini   sendmail path     usr bin msmtp -C  path to your config -t    Then even the lowly mail   function can work with SMTP goodness  It is super useful if you re trying to connect an existing application to mail services like sendgrid or mandrill without modifying the application

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For another approach  you can take a file like this  From  Sunday  lt sunday gmail com gt  To  Monday  lt monday gmail com gt  Subject  Day  Tuesday Wednesday  and send like this   lt  php  a1     monday gmail com     r1   fopen  a txt    r     r2   curl init  smtps   smtp gmail com    curl setopt  r2  CURLOPT MAIL RCPT   a1   curl setopt  r2  CURLOPT NETRC  true   curl setopt  r2  CURLOPT READDATA   r1   curl setopt  r2  CURLOPT UPLOAD  true   curl exec  r2    https   php net function curl-setopt

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Here is a way to do it with PHP PEAR     Pear Mail Library require once  Mail php     from     lt your mail com gt      change this to your email address  to     lt someone mail com gt       change to address  subject    Insert subject here      subject of mail  body    Hello world  this is the content of the email     content of mail   headers   array       From    gt   from       To    gt   to       Subject    gt   subject      smtp   Mail  factory  smtp   array           host    gt   ssl   smtp gmail com            port    gt   465            auth    gt  true           username    gt   your gmail com     your gmail account          password    gt   snip     your password             Send the mail  mail    smtp- gt send  to   headers   body      check mail sent or not if  PEAR  isError  mail         echo   lt p gt    mail- gt getMessage     lt  p gt      else       echo   lt p gt Message successfully sent  lt  p gt        If you use Gmail SMTP remember to enable SMTP in your Gmail account  under settings   EDIT  If you can t find Mail php on debian ubuntu you can install php-pear with  sudo apt install php-pear   Then install the mail extention   sudo pear install mail sudo pear install Net SMTP sudo pear install Auth SASL sudo pear install mail mime   Then you should be able to load it by simply require once  Mail php   else it is located here   usr share php Mail php

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