I have written a function to send a confirmation email for a hobby app I am working on. I thought I set everything up properly, but I am getting the following error when I call the function:
2019-05-08 02:43:30 Connection failed. Error #2: failed loading cafile stream: `C:\xampp\apache\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt' [C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\InviteMe Application\vendor\phpmailer\src\SMTP.php line 405]
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
I have already set up my gmail account to allow less secure apps to access the account and I have a password generated.
I have tried reading the troubleshooting documentation for the library I am using but have not been able to find anything that addresses the specific problem I am having.
Here is the email function:
function send_confirmation_email($name, $email, $user_id) {
$confirmationUrl = generate_confirmation_url($user_id);
$body = "";
$body .= "<html><body>";
$body .="<h1>Confirm your account</h1>";
$body .= "<p>Follow the link below to confirm your account:</p>";
$body .= "<a href='" . $confirmationUrl . "'>confirm account</a>";
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; //debugging purposes
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "invitemedemo#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->setFrom('invitemedemo#gmail.com', "InviteMe");
$mail->addAddress($email, $name);
$mail->Subject = "Confirm Account";
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->isHTML(true);
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
Rather than the email being sent, I see the error I pasted above.
Validate your smtp email service.
If you have MAC OS, see how to enable postfix for Gmail SMTP using your gmail account at: https://gist.github.com/loziju/66d3f024e102704ff5222e54a4bfd50e
Using Ubuntu Linux reference: https://gist.github.com/adamstac/7462202
Check the PHP settings in the php.ini file for the active php version you are using.
i.e. Using MAMP for MAC OS, gt to Applications -> MAMP -> conf -> php7.0.32 (must be the active version you are using, so if you are using php 5.3.14, then go to that directory) ->php.ini
Edit the php.ini file with:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me#example.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well
(default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path = sendmail -t -i -f example#gmail.com
sendmail_path = "env -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -I"
Restart apache2 after updating the php.ini file.
If using MAC OS to stop and restart mail service: sudo postfix stop && sudo postfix start sudo postfix reload
Test Email
Send a test email from the terminal CLI:
echo "Test sending email from Postfix" | mail -s "Test Postfix" example#gmail.com
Alternatively, I find I can send a test message from the terminal CLI using this:
echo "test message" | sendmail -v example#gmail.com
Check errors for sendmail use the terminal CLI command:
mailq
You can test the SMTP feature using php such as:
<?php
// testemail.php
$to_email = 'example#gmail.com';
$subject = 'Testing PHP Mail';
$message = 'This mail is sent using the PHP mail function';
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
$headers = 'From: yoursending#email.com';
mail($to_email,$subject,$message,$headers);
$mail = mail($to_email,$subject,$message,$headers);
if ($mail) { echo "Thank you for using mail";}
else { echo "Mail sending failed.";}
ini_set('display_errors',1);
?>
Related
here are the details
[php.ini]
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 465
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
mail.add_x_header=Off
[sendmail.ini]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
smtp_ssl=ssl
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=[email]#gmail.com
auth_password=[email password]
pop3_server=
pop3_username=
pop3_password=
force_sender=[email]#gmail.com
force_recipient=
hostname=smtp.gmail.com
[mail function]
mail('[email]#gmail.com','sample mail','sample content','From: anotheremail#gmail.com');
i have checked smtp settings properly, but its still not working please suggest.
php.ini
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP=localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port=25
sendmail_path = C:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = me#example.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail().
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header=On
; The path to a log file that will log all mail() calls. Log entries include
; the full path of the script, line number, To address and headers.
;mail.log =
; Log mail to syslog (Event Log on Windows).
;mail.log = syslog
Working For me.
You have to configure SMTP on your server
You can use the googles free SMTP server Pretty easy to setup too.
<?php
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
//Send mail using gmail
if($send_using_gmail){
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "your-gmail-account#gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "your-gmail-password"; // GMAIL password
}
//Typical mail data
$mail->AddAddress($email, $name);
$mail->SetFrom($email_from, $name_from);
$mail->Subject = "My Subject";
$mail->Body = "Mail contents";
try{
$mail->Send();
echo "Success!";
} catch(Exception $e){
//Something went bad
echo "Fail :(";
}
?>
You can try below as well.
You can send mail from localhost with sendmail package , sendmail package is inbuild in XAMPP. So if you are using XAMPP then you can easily send mail from localhost.
for example you can configure
C:\xampp\php\php.iniandc:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini for gmail to send mail.
in C:\xampp\php\php.ini find extension=php_openssl.dll and remove the semicolon from the beginning of that line to make SSL working for gmail for localhost.
in php.ini file find [mail function] and change
SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = test#gmail.com
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
Now Open C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini. Replace all the existing code in sendmail.ini with following code
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=test#gmail.com
auth_password=my-gmail-password
force_sender=test#gmail.com
//mail function
$mail=test#test.com
mail($mail, 'Subject', 'sample mail', 'From: test#axxx.ba');
You should use PHPMailer instead:
download it from here
copy the PHPMailerAutoload.php from the downloaded Zip folder & paste into your directory where you've your contact us page
Then paste the following code in your contact page script:
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'user#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
Don't forget to change the dummy values
For those who are using Windows and XAMPP, you have to replace the backslash \ with / on your php.ini file. A sample value could be
sendmail_path=C:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t -i
https://dzone.com/articles/how-send-emails-php-windows
I always get this message when trying to send email from my local host.
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Message could not be sent.
Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
below is my code: please help
<?php
// $email and $message are the data that is being
// posted to this page from our html contact form
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
// When we unzipped PHPMailer, it unzipped to
// public_html/PHPMailer_5.2.0
require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
// set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->IsSMTP();
// As this email.php script lives on the same server as our email server
// we are setting the HOST to localhost
$mail->Host = "localhost"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
// When sending email using PHPMailer, you need to send from a valid email address
// In this case, we setup a test email account with the following credentials:
// email: send_from_PHPMailer#bradm.inmotiontesting.com
// pass: password
$mail->Username = "project#reliable.com.pk"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "Nov112014"; // SMTP password
// $email is the user's email address the specified
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$mail->From = $email;
// below we want to set the email address we will be sending our email to.
$mail->AddAddress("mani9418#gmail.com", "Usman Ali Siddiqui");
// set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
// set email format to HTML
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "You have received feedback from your website Etutionhub!";
// $message is the user's message they typed in
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->AltBody = $message;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
Open the php.ini. For XAMPP, it is located in C:\XAMPP\php\php.ini. Find out if you are using WAMP or LAMP server.
Note: Make a backup of php.ini file.
Search [mail function] in the php.ini file.
You can find like below.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster#localhost
Change the localhost to the smtp server name of your ISP. No need to change the smtp_port. Leave it as 25. Change sendmail_from from postmaster#localhost to your domain email address which will be used as from address.
So for me, it will become like this.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.example.com
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = info#example.com
Restart the XAMPP or WAMP(apache server) so that changes will start working.
Now try to send the mail using the mail() function.
mail("example#example.com","Success","Great, Localhost Mail works");
Mail will be sent to example#example.com from the localhost with Subject line "Success" and body "Great, Localhost Mail works".
You can add this line
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
after
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
here is my php code to send email.
<?php
class mailer {
public function send_request_mail($to, $msg) {
$from="abcd#xyz.com";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n".'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n".'From: ' . $from . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $from . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion ();
$message = "ip 192.168.0.9:9035";
$subject = "subject";
mail ( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
}
}
$mail=new mailer();
$mail->send_request_mail("abcd#xyz.com", "msg");
?>
sometimes its works(for some messages).when i try to send an ip address like above,it fails.help me
Hope you are doing Well.
PHP must be configured correctly in the php.ini file with the details of how your system sends email. Open php.ini file available in /etc/ directory and find the section headed [mail function].
Windows users should ensure that two directives are supplied. The first is called SMTP that defines your email server address. The second is called sendmail_from which defines your own email address.
The configuration for Windows should look something like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.secureserver.net
; For win32 only
sendmail_from = webmaster#tutorialspoint.com
Linux users simply need to let PHP know the location of their sendmail application. The path and any desired switches should be specified to the sendmail_path directive.
The configuration for Linux should look something like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP =
; For win32 only
sendmail_from =
; For Unix only
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
PHP makes use of mail() function to send an email. This function requires three mandatory arguments that specify the recipient's email address, the subject of the the message and the actual message additionally there are other two optional parameters.
mail( to, subject, message, headers, parameters );
Example:
Following example will send an HTML email message to xyz#somedomain.com copying it to afgh#somedomain.com. You can code this program in such a way that it should recieve all content from the user and then it should send an email.
<html>
<head>
<title>Sending HTML email using PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$to = "xyz#somedomain.com";
$subject = "This is subject";
$message = "<b>This is HTML message.</b>";
$message .= "<h1>This is headline.</h1>";
$header = "From:abc#somedomain.com \r\n";
$header = "Cc:afgh#somedomain.com \r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$retval = mail ($to,$subject,$message,$header);
if( $retval == true )
{
echo "Message sent successfully...";
}
else
{
echo "Message could not be sent...";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Hope this will be usefull to you !!! Cheers !!
Waiting for your positive comments !!!
You may want to use something like PHPMailer because there is a good chance your email will end up in spam or junk box when you use mail() function.
Here is a sample code using PHPMailer,
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'user#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->From = 'abcd#xyz.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'ip 192.168.0.9:9035';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
I have used following settings in joomla -adminpanel- global configuration-server
Mailer :Sendmail
Mail from :user
From Name :sales#user.com
Sendmail Path :/usr/sbin/sendmail
SMTP Authentication :No
SMTP Security :none
SMTP Port :25
SMTP Username:
SMTP Password :
SMTP Host :localhost
I have used form in site
<form action="email.php" method="post" name="emailForm" id="emailForm" class="form- validate">
in email.php i used php mailer as follows
<?php
require_once("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['text'] ;
// Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = 'sales#example.com ';
$mail->FromName = 'Techzo';
$mail->addAddress('ccccc#example.in'); // Name is optional
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Enquiry /Contact form';
$mail->Body = 'Name: $name\nEmail: $email\n\n$message';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>
I have searched and worked accordingly but not in use.As am new to these coding please help me to understand this issue
This happens when sendmail is not installed on your server (sendmail should be under /usr/sbin ). You will need to install sendmail or use an alternative, such as gmail (you can use gmail using the phpmailer class.
Thanks for all your suggestions.I have sorted out the problem a day before.
Problem is sendmail option is not available in that server, I have tried for SMTP with wrong port no(25) previously.587 is port no for the mail server.
BY USING SMTP with all their configuration settings i done through it.
I have been trying to send mail using wamp server in my laptop. The SMTP server is presented in online.
Here is my php code to send mail:
<?php
ini_set( 'SMTP', "mail.vickey1192.co.in" );
ini_set( 'smtp_port', 26 );
ini_set( 'sendmail_from', "admin#vickey1192.co.in" );
$to = "balavickey1192#gmail.com";
$subject = "Acknowledgement";
$message = "Thank you for registering with us<br>";
$from = "no-reply#vickey1192.co.in";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
I also set my php.ini file like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = mail.vickey1192.co.in
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 26
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = admin#vickey1192.co.in
This is the error I am getting:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550-Please turn on SMTP
Authentication in your mail client, or login to the 550-IMAP/POP3
server before sending your message. (vignesh-PC)
550-[115.118.170.201]:23328 is not permitted to relay through this
server 550 without authentication. in C:\wamp\www\mailtofunc.php on
line 12
What do I do now? Please help me guys...
I think its a problem with authentication. You need to add the SMTP user's username and password to the mail function to send the email.
//Using built in mail method
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com'
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'your_username#example.com'; // a valid email here
$mail->Password = 'replace_with_your_password';
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->AddReplyTo('from#example.com', 'Test');
$mail->FromName = 'Test SMTP';
$mail->AddAddress('test1#example.com', 'test2#example.com');
$mail->Subject = 'Test SMTP';
$mail->Body = 'Hello World';
$mail->Send();
You might be better off trying the PHP's Pear mail function, if you know how to use it.
//Using PEAR's mail function
<?php
include('Mail.php');
/* mail setup recipients, subject etc */
$recipients = "your_recipients#example.com";
$headers["From"] = "user#example.com";
$headers["To"] = "feedback#example.com";
$headers["Subject"] = "Some Subject";
$mailmsg = "Hello, This is a test.";
/* SMTP server name, port, user/passwd */
$smtpinfo["host"] = "smtp.example.com";
$smtpinfo["port"] = "25";
$smtpinfo["auth"] = true;
$smtpinfo["username"] = "smtpusername";
$smtpinfo["password"] = "smtpPassword";
/* Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method */
$mail_object =& Mail::factory("smtp", $smtpinfo);
/* Ok send mail */
$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $mailmsg);
?>
Your mail server requires authentication (username + password) before it will accept email from you. It is suggesting you either provide it via your SMTP connection (using SMTP AUTH, hopefully with TLS), or that you do a technique called POP before SMTP where you first login and 'check' your mail which will cause a temporary whitelisting of your host so it can send mail for a brief while afterward.