smtp configuration for php mail

Solution 1:

PHP's mail() function does not have support for SMTP. You're going to need to use something like the PEAR Mail package.

Here is a sample SMTP mail script:

<?php
require_once("Mail.php");

$from = "Your Name <[email protected]>";
$to = "Their Name <[email protected]>";
$subject = "Subject";
$body = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...";

$host = "mailserver.blahblah.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";

$headers = array('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject);

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host,
                                     'auth' => true,
                                     'username' => $username,
                                     'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if ( PEAR::isError($mail) ) {
    echo("<p>Error sending mail:<br/>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
    echo("<p>Message sent.</p>");
}
?>

Solution 2:

Note that PHP mail settings come from your php.ini file. The default looks more or less like this:

[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 = [email protected]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = On

; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
;mail.log =

By editing your php.ini file you should be able to fix the problem without changing your PHP scripts. Also, you can test a connection with the telnet tool and the HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, QUIT commands if you directly connect to an SMTP server. With sendmail, you don't even need that, sendmail should know what it's doing (although in your case it probably wasn't and the sendmail settings probably needed a little help.)

Update: in most cases, telnet is not installed anymore because it's considered dangerous (i.e. it gives you a clear text connection which is generally fine on your local network, but not so much to remote computers). Instead, we have nc which is very similar for testing things such as SMTP but doesn't really allow for remote shell connections. That being said, more and more SMTP is going to use encryption as well so the best tool to test is still sendmail.

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