When you create new websites , a frequent requirement will be sending automatic mail notifications from Enquiry Forms, sending mail activations, forget password links, product enquiries.etc. When you host website in linux hosting , there are restrictions on mail sending. This is mainly due to the increase in number of spam mails all over the world. it is being noted that spammers are sending phishing mails through many domains even without having any login details. So the server people accept only SMTP secure mail transmission for this. I will be using PHP mailer for sending mails.
1) Download PHPMailer script from Github:-
2) Now you have to create an email account if you already didn't have and note the password of the same.Make sure to Enable DKIM,SPF and PKR for servers not marking it as spam.
3) Now in the project copy the phpmailer folder into the root folder of project.now in the script you want to send mail,include this code:-
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP $mail->isSMTP(); //Enable SMTP debugging.This you can use to check the working. for testing put to 2 and check mails going or no.In production environment,put it as 0.
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = "mail.domain.com";
//Set the SMTP port number should be ssl settings smtp port 465
$mail->Port = 465;
//Whether to use SMTP authentication,dont forget to put this line.
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "info@domain.com";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "mYP@$$w0rd";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('user@domain.com', 'Name');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('user@domain.com', 'Name');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = $subject;
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML($msg);
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->addAddress($email_to, 'User');
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
