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

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

PHP mail() command does not support authentication. Your options:

1. PHPMailer- Tutorial
2. PEAR - Tutorial
3. Custom functions - See various solutions in the notes section: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

Answer 2

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

SMTP = smtp.example.com
smtp_port = 25
username = info@example.com
password = yourmailpassord
sendmail_from = info@example.com

These details are same as on outlook settings.

Answer 3

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=user@gmail.com
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 4

PHP does have authentication on the mail-command!

The following is working for me on WAMPSERVER (windows, php 5.2.17)

php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.yourserver.com
smtp_port = 25
auth_username = smtp-username
auth_password = smtp-password
sendmail_from = you@yourserver.com

Answer 5

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 6

After working all day on this, I finally found a solution. Here's how I send from Windows XP with WAMP.

1. Use Google's SMTP server. You probably need an account.
2. Download and install Fake Sendmail. I just downloaded it, unzipped it and put it in the WAMP folder.
3. Create a test PHP file. See below.

<?php
    $message = "test message body";
    $result = mail('recipient@some-domain.com', 'message subject', $message);
    echo "result: $result";
?>

4. Update your php.ini file and your sendmail.ini file (sendmail.ini is in the sendmail folder).
5. Check the error.log file in the sendmail folder that you just created if it doesn't work.

Reference:

• http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/599
• http://www.joshstauffer.com/send-test-emails-with-wampserver/

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

Use Mail::factory in the Mail PEAR package. Example.

Answer 9

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 = "from@yourdomain.com";
$mail->FromName = "Full Name";

//To address and name
$mail->addAddress("recepient1@example.com", "Recepient Name");
$mail->addAddress("recepient1@example.com"); //Recipient name is optional

//Address to which recipient will reply
$mail->addReplyTo("reply@yourdomain.com", "Reply");

//CC and BCC
$mail->addCC("cc@example.com");
$mail->addBCC("bcc@example.com");

//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 10

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 11

1. Install the latest hMailServer. "Run hMailServer Administrator" in the last step.
2. Connect to "localhost".
3. "Add domain..."
4. Set "127.0.0.1." as the "Domain", click "Save".
5. "Settings" > "Protocols" > "SMTP" > "Delivery of e-mail"
6. Set "localhost" as the "Local host name", provide your data in the "SMTP Relayer" section, click "Save".
7. "Settings" > "Advanced" > "IP Ranges" > "My Computer"
8. Disable the "External to external e-mail addresses" checkbox in the "Require SMTP authentication" group.
9. If you have modified php.ini, rewrite these 3 values:

"SMTP = localhost",

"smtp_port = 25",

"; sendmail_path = ".

Credit: How to configure WAMP (localhost) to send email using Gmail?