Send Mail Using PHP

Send Mail Using PHP

his solution requires sendmail.exe (a Command Line Interface (CLI) executable which accepts email from PHP, connects to an SMTP server and sends email). You will not require to use it by command, don’t bother about it  Download the sendmail.zip and follow these steps:

Create a folder named “sendmail” in “C:\wamp\”.

Extract these 4 files in “sendmail” folder: “sendmail.exe”, “libeay32.dll”, “ssleay32.dll” and “sendmail.ini”.

Open the “sendmail.ini” file and configure it as following

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port=465

smtp_ssl=ssl

default_domain=localhost

error_logfile=error.log

debug_logfile=debug.log

auth_username=[your_gmail_account_username]@gmail.com

auth_password=[your_gmail_account_password]

pop3_server=

pop3_username=

pop3_password=

force_sender=

force_recipient=

hostname=localhost

You do not need to specify any value for these properties: pop3_server, pop3_username, pop3_password, force_sender, force_recipient. The error_logfile and debug_logfile settings should be kept blank if you have already sent successful email(s) otherwise size of this file will keep increasing. Enable these log file settings if you don’t get able to send email using sendmail.

Enable IMAP Access in your GMail’s Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access:

Enable “ssl_module” module in Apache server:

Enable “php_openssl” and “php_sockets” extensions for PHP compiler (ignore the “php_smtp” mark in the image, this extension would not be available in your WAMP server):

Open php.ini from “C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\bin” and configure it as following (The php.ini at “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.x” would not work) (You just need to configure the last line in the following code, prefix semicolon (;) against other lines):

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/smtp

;SMTP =

; http://php.net/smtp-port

;smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/sendmail-from

;sendmail_from = you@domain.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").

; http://php.net/sendmail-path

sendmail_path = "C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -i"

Restart WAMP Server.

Create a PHP file and write the following code in it:

<?php

$to       = 'recipient@yahoo.com';

$subject  = 'Testing sendmail.exe';

$message  = 'Hi, you just received an email using sendmail!';

$headers  = 'From: sender@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .

            'Reply-To: sender@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .

            'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" .

            'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n" .

            'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

    echo "Email sent";

else

    echo "Email sending failed";

?>Make appropriate changes in $to and $headers variables to set recipient, sender and reply-to address. Save it as “send-mail.php”. (You can save it anywhere or inside any sub-folder in “C:\wamp\www”.)

Open this file in browser, it MUST work now