Send Email by SMTP

[onh1986]

Hello

How can I send an email by SMTP?
I need a PHP sample.
Please help me to get it.


Thank you

[ninjanutz]

mail ($_POST['email'], 'subject of email here', 'body of email here', 'From: ur email here');

u have to make sure mail is enabled in the php ini file though

[PlaGuE]

you should do more then that. As that will get rejected by some servers.

$to = "[email protected]";
       $subject = "You've won 1000$";
       $message="This is a message."
#Headers############################################
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: person<[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
       mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

not the best but it works.

[onh1986]

But I want to use the SMTP of my website.

[john tindell]

You can either change the values in your php.ini file

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost ; for Win32 only
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from= [email protected] ; for Win32 only

or you can set the values dynamicaly if you don't have access to you php.ini file.

ini_set("SMTP","localhost"); 

The final method is to use sockets to connect manually to your SMTP server and send it that way, its the hardest is pointless as PHP already has built in support for sending emails, but if you want to use sockets them heres a link:

http://uk.php.net/sockets

[k1ll3rdr4g0n]

The send email that is built into PHP doesn't support SMTP auth, just do a google search for 'SMTP auth PHP'.

[john tindell]

Have you looked at:

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

They say that it supports SMTP authentication but i haven't used it so im not sure if it fill definatly fit your needs.

[onh1986]

I want a simple php example to send an email by used SMTP.

[john tindell]

<?php
$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email][email protected][/email] . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: [email]webmaster@example.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
ini_set("SMTP","smtp.yoursite.com");
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

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