I just tried using phpmailer for sending emails with smtp and gmail. below is my config file.
public function SendEmailToUser($email, $subject, $message, $plainTextMessage)
{
//require_once './includes/mailer/class.phpmailer.php';
/**
* This example shows settings to use when sending via Google's Gmail servers.
*/
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
//require '../PHPMailerAutoload.php';
require_once("./includes/mailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
//$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// use
// $mail->Host = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');
// if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->isHTML = false;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "
[email protected]";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "myAccountPassword";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('
[email protected]', 'Ricky Mossip');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('
[email protected]', 'Ricky Mossip');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress($email, 'First Nation Circle Member');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = $subject;
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML($message);
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = $message;
//Attach an image file
//$mail->addAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.png');
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "<p>Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo . "</p>";
} else {
echo "<h2>Message sent!</h2>";
}
}
However I just discovered the following blog,
https://lecturesnippets.com/lesson/sending-email-through-the-centos-7-php-web-server/
and after following that guide i still cannot send emails using the command line or phpmailer. i tried removing the call to isSMTP(); that seems to get it to work.(it says no errors and email sent), but nothing when i check my emails and even my spam folder shows nothing.
