I'm guessing that this:
<?php
$emailTo = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'I hope this works!';
$body = 'Blah';
$headers='From: [email protected]'
mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
?>
is not going to cut it. I searched for ways that I can send to email with SMTP auth and mail clients and programs such as PHPMailer, but I don't have a concise and direct answer yet thats helpful. Basically, I want a way to send emails to gmail, hotmail, etc (which will be my email) from another email (sender) through a form on my website
Questions:
Thanks!
PHP makes use of mail() function to send an email. This function requires three mandatory arguments that specify the recipient's email address, the subject of the the message and the actual message additionally there are other two optional parameters. mail( to, subject, message, headers, parameters );
For PHPMailer to be able to send emails from your PHP app, you will need to connect it to an SMTP server.
Use PHPMailer library.It is better than use mail native function because in PHPMailer you can use user authentication to avoid to send the email to spam.You can use this library without to configure a mail server. You can download in this link https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
See an example:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // SMTP port
$mail->Username = "[email protected]"; // username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // password
$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Test');
$mail->Subject = "I hope this works!";
$mail->MsgHTML('Blah');
$address = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "Test");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
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