Adjust the example below for your needs. Make sure you change the following variables:
- from: the sender's email address and name.
- to: the recipient's email address and name.
- username: your SMTP username.
- password: your SMTP password.
- host: mail.smtp2go.com.
PHP Script to Send Email Using SMTP Authentication
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
require_once "Mail/mime.php";
$from = "Susan Sender <sender@example.com>";
$to = "Rachel Recipient <recipient@example.com>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$text = "Hi,\n\nIt is a text message";
$html = "It is a <b>HTML</b> message";
$mime = new Mail_mime();
$mime->setHTMLBody($html);
$mime->setTXTBody($text);
$body = $mime->get();
$host = "mail.africanlab.co.za";
$port = "2525";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$headers = $mime->headers($headers);
$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>");
}
?>
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PHP Script to Send Email Using SMTP Authentication and SSL Encryption
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
require_once "Mail/mime.php";
$from = "Susan Sender <sender@example.com>";
$to = "Rachel Recipient <recipient@example.com>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$text = "Hi,\n\nIt is a text message";
$html = "It is a <b>HTML</b> message";
$mime = new Mail_mime();
$mime->setHTMLBody($html);
$mime->setTXTBody($text);
$body = $mime->get();
$host = "ssl://mail.africanlab.co.za";
$port = "465";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$headers = $mime->headers($headers);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'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>");
}
?>
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Please note: If you experience "timeouts" or problems connecting due to an unreliable internet connection, consider increasing the max_execution_time setting in the php.ini file on your server, to a value such as 120 (instead of the default value 30).