sending email via php

[rodrigo7x]

Hi,

 

I hope someone could shed some light on my dilema. I have php, apache, mysql and pear install on a local environment. I would like to be able to send emails through php but I can't.

 

I started with this code:

<?php

$to = "Myownemailaddress";

$subject = "Hi!";

$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {

  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");

} else {

  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");

}

?>

 

and I got the error 550 saying server requires authentication. So I google that and I found out about PEAR and installed it, I downloaded the mail, net_smtp, and net_socket classes  so that the Mail.php function would work. I kept getting some errors about the require_once(Mail.php) could not be found... So I kept digging and when I found an updated version to all the dependencies the erros went away. Now when I use the following code, I don't get a confirmation saying it was successful neither do I get any error messages:

 

 

<?php

require_once "Mail.php";

 

$from = "Myownemailaddress";

$to = "Myownemailaddress";

$subject = "Hi!";

$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

 

$host = "outgoing.verizon.net";

$username = "myusername";

$password = "mypassword";

 

$headers = array ('From' => $from,

  'To' => $to,

  'Subject' => $subject);

 

 

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',

  array ('host' => $host,

    'auth' => true,

    'username' => $username,

    'password' => $password));

 

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

 

 

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {

  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");

} else {

  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");

}

?>

 

 

Now, pear I believe is installed right because I ran a test with text-highlighter class and the text displays properly as the test is supposed to. Can anybody see any errors in my code, or where I could have messed up? I installed pear in c:php\pear and I have that as the include_path in php.ini .  I also set php.ini to :

 

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

;SMTP = localhost

;smtp_port = 25

SMTP = outgoing.verizon.net

smtp_port = 25

 

; For Win32 only.

sendmail_from = Myemailaddresshere

 

 

the include path:

 

; Windows: "\path1;\path2"

;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"

include_path = ".;C:\php\PEAR"

 

I greatly appreciate any help.  Thank you.

 

 

[revraz]

I don't see how you can use verizon's mail server with they require authentication.

[rodrigo7x]

HI,

 

no one ever responded but in case anyone looks in this post I wanted to provide the solution that worked for me, I was using the wrong code in php, here it is:

 

 

 

 

<?php

 

require_once("/usr/local/php5/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

$mail->ContentType = "text/plain"; // text/plain or text/html

 

$mail->Host = "localhost"; // had been hacked in class.smtp.php, ssl://smtp.gmail.com

$mail->SMTPAuth = false;

$mail->Username = "[email protected]";

$mail->Password = "xxxxx";

 

$mail->From = "[email protected]";

$mail->FromName = "www.gmail.com";

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");

 

// CC and BCC

// $mail->AddCC("[email protected]");

// $mail->AddBCC("[email protected]");

 

$mail->Subject = "This is my subject";

$mail->Body = "This is my message";

 

if(!$mail->Send()) {

echo "Message was not sent";

echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;

} else {

echo "Email sent";

}

?>