HOW TO use gmail to send emails in php using PHPMailer

1 Download PHPMailer from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net
2 Extract to folder phpmailer
3 Create a file email.php
4 Paste this code and change the values in blue as you need (I modified the sample code given on the PHPMailer homepage)

?>
require("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "username@gmail.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password
$webmaster_email = "username@doamin.com"; //Reply to this email ID
$email="username@domain.com"; // Recipients email ID
$name="name"; // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->FromName = "Webmaster";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"Webmaster");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // attachment
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "This is the subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi,
This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body
if(!$mail->Send())
{
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
  echo "Message has been sent";
}
?> 

Code (markup):

5 Open the file class.smtp.php in phpmailer directory
6 Paste this code
$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port = 465;
before the line 104 #connect to the smtp server
Hint: Search for #connect
7 Open this page in browser and it will send the email using GMail.

Hint: When you want to email the details from a form, set the variables using the form variables.
eg. $mail->Username=$_POST['email']

 

I don't like to trust scripts with my google account login :S

anybody else use this?

 

I have used this.. its just uses google SMTP server nothing else...
its uses PHPmailer which is certified project of sourceforge

 

I am a n00b to php. Can you explain in more detail how I could use this in a form. Maybe give me a quick example. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

 

This in no way would bypass the relay issues for bulk mail. I have used a similar script and it works. However, you will hit a 200 to 500 relay limit.

I do have a question relating to this topic though....
Is there a way to create a mailbox in PHP (and delete it). I was hoping to do this programmatically rather than in Simple Control Panel (installed on the dedicated server provided by GoDaddy).

Regards,
boxcar

 

it gives the error Fatal error: Call to undefined function IsSMTP() in D:\wamp\www\email.php on line 3

i put email.php outside the folder phpmailer.

 

The call to that must be replaced with the following:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();

but you've probably figured this out in the past year or so. Ciao.

 

Used above mentioned script to send mails via gmail using PHP - I got a mail from gmail support regarding a suspicious activity on my account.

Please let me know if there are any changes to be made to this code so that I dont face such security issue. Thanks!