php.ini & SMTP= - how do you pass username & passw

Question

My ISP account requires that I send a username & password for outbound SMTP mail.

How do I get PHP to use this when executing php.mail()? The php.ini file only contains entries for the server (SMTP= ) and From: (sendmail_from= ).

Answer 1

I prefer the PHPMailer tool as it doesn't require PEAR. But either way, you have a misunderstanding: you don't want a PHP-server-wide setting for the SMTP user and password. This should be a per-app (or per-page) setting. If you want to use the same account across different PHP pages, add it to some kind of settings.php file.

Answer 2

Considering one answer in this question, In PHP 4 the PEAR Mail package is typically already installed, and this really simple tutorial shows you the few lines of code that you need to add to your php file http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm

Answer 3

These answers are outdated and depreciated. Best practice..

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

The next on your sendmail.php file just require the following

# use namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

# require php mailer
require_once "../vendor/autoload.php";

//PHPMailer Object
$mail = new PHPMailer;

//From email address and name
$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "Full Name";

//To address and name
$mail->addAddress("[e-mail]", "Recepient Name");
$mail->addAddress("[e-mail]"); //Recipient name is optional

//Address to which recipient will reply
$mail->addReplyTo("[e-mail]", "Reply");

//CC and BCC
$mail->addCC("[e-mail]");
$mail->addBCC("[e-mail]");

//Send HTML or Plain Text email
$mail->isHTML(true);

$mail->Subject = "Subject Text";
$mail->Body = "<i>Mail body in HTML</i>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the plain text version of the email content";

if(!$mail->send()) 
{
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} 
else 
{
    echo "Message has been sent successfully";
}

This can be configure how ever you like..

Answer 4

Use Fake sendmail for Windows to send mail.

1. Create a folder named sendmail in C:\wamp\.
2. Extract these 4 files in sendmail folder: sendmail.exe, libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll and sendmail.ini.
3. Then configure C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.ini:

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
auth_username=[e-mail]
auth_password=your_password

4. The above will work against a Gmail account. And then configure php.ini:

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

5. Now, restart Apache, and that is basically all you need to do.

Answer 5

I apply following details on php.ini file. its works fine.

SMTP = smtp.example.com
smtp_port = 25
username = [e-mail]
password = yourmailpassord
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

These details are same as on outlook settings.

Answer 6

1. Install Postfix (Sendmail-compatible).
2. Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to read:

#Relay config
relayhost = smtp.server.net
smtp_use_tls=yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

3. Create /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd, enter:

smtp.server.net username:password

4. Type # /usr/sbin/postmap sasl_passwd

5. Then run: service postfix reload

Now PHP will run mail as usual with the sendmail -t -i command and Postfix will intercept it and relay it to your SMTP server that you provided.