How to send mail using googlemail SMTP server ?

[Pesho]

Dear all,

 

could someone tell me how I can send mail through a php script, using my googlemail account...

 

thanks,

Petar

[vbnullchar]

do you mean using gmails smtp address or you just want to have your gmail email address to appear as sender?

 

you just add extra headers:

 

<?php$to      = 'me@somewhere.com';
$subject = 'subject';
$message = 'messagesssss';
$headers = 'From: you_email@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: you_email@gmail.com' . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?> 

[Pesho]

I mean the google SMTP address, with my account details (user and pass).

[vbnullchar]

i dont know if it will work try setting googles smpt address to your php.ini

[black.horizons]

i guess you're trying to make your own gmail app? otherwise you wouldn't need your password to be included in that. Can't really see the need to make your own gmail - but whatever floats your boat.

 

I would imagine it's possible sites like www.bebo.com let you sign in to gmail to access your contact book to add them as contacts to your social network.

[Pesho]

all right, I guess I don't want it so complicated, I just want to send an e-mail, but I don't know what SMTP to use.

 

ok, I changed the php.ini file with:

 

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.googlemail.com
smtp_port = 465

 

and added the following to my .php script:

 

$to      = 'myname@googlemail.com';
$subject = 'subject';
$message = 'messagesssss';
$headers = 'From: myname@googlemail.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: myname@googlemail.com' . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

However, it doesn't seem to work. It just gets stuck...

 

 

[vbnullchar]

in your PHP.INI just put a valid SMTP address, you dont have to use gmails smtp address i you have one

[Pesho]

I don't have my own SMTP address, but one I wrote up there (smtp.googlemail.com) is supposed to be valid. However it doesn't work. How can I see what's wrong...