Sending email via gmail (I really cannot get this to work)

[madspof]

Hi I am trying to send email via a gmail acount and I am not able to. I have run various scripts but they all amount to an error.

Does anyone have a email script that uses authization and works with gmail.

Thanks madspof.

[BlueSkyIS]

i expect this is a tall order. do you HAVE to send the email through gmail? Can you simply change the From, Return-to and other headers to use a gmail return address?

[madspof]

Hm explain what you mean im confused

 

[BlueSkyIS]

in other words, just use the php mail() function: http://us2.php.net/function.mail

 

and use additional headers to define the from, return-to and other fields:

 

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@gmail.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

The receiver will see webmaster@gmail.com in the From field on the email.

[madspof]

Ah I see what you mean but i am hosting my own server and i need a way of accessing the the gmail smtp server using autherisation

[BlueSkyIS]

Oh, I see. So you want to get mail and send mail to/from your gmail account. Not just make it look like mail is coming from gmail. My bad.

[madspof]

Yes exactual but i have hit a brickwall and cannot go any further

 

[BlueSkyIS]

have you looked for any pre-built classes to help, for instance:

 

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/14.html

 

will apparently retrieve via SMTP. You may need something else to send... phpclasses.org is an excellent resource for pre-written PHP classes.