PHPmailer without using SMTP

Question

I've added the PHPMailer folder to my root folder on my web server and I just get an error that has to do with SMTP.

Is there a way to use PHPMailer without needing to log into a mail account? Can I just have the server send the email to a address?

I was searching this site and found this

$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->From      = '[email protected]';
$email->FromName  = 'Your Name';
$email->Subject   = 'Message Subject';
$email->Body      = $bodytext;
$email->AddAddress( '[email protected]' );

$file_to_attach = 'PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';

$email->AddAttachment( $file_to_attach , 'NameOfFile.pdf' );

return $email->Send();

But I get an error that says "Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: You must provide at least one recipient email address."

Answer 1

I commented out the SMTP lines and now it works

<?php

require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

//$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
//$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
//$mail->Username = '';                 // SMTP username
//$mail->Password = '';                           // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
//$mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->From = '[email protected]';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'User');     // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]');               // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('[email protected]');
$mail->addBCC('[email protected]');

$mail->addAttachment('');         // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name
$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';

if(!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>