Wampserver | phpmailer

[coder500]

I have installed wampserver.

Can anyone advise me what I can do to send mails.

Phpmailer is also there.

I have a website and it has a mailserver.

Can I send mails using that mail server or shall I have to install SMTP server locally...

Any help...

[Daniel0]

You can use an external SMTP server just fine. Just change the relevant settings in php.ini.

[coder500]

Could u please tell me what I have to change in php.ini

Where I will enter username and password for the mail server?

Thanks

[PFMaBiSmAd]

To use an external mail server, you will need to use something like the phpmailer class, which supports SMTP authentication, because the php mail() function does not.

[coder500]

I installed phpmailer.

In class.phpmailer.php there is option to enter smtp username and smtp password.

I entered them. Also I changed the SMTP line in php.ini file to smtp.worth2read.org(mailserver) of my remote server.

But I could not make it to work.

Shall I have to change anything else...

Thanks

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Only the php mail() function uses the SMTP setting in php.ini. To use your SMTP server with phpmailer, you need to set the phpmailer host parameter -

 

$mail->Host     = "smtp.example.com"; // SMTP server