send email with php and may be configure smtp settings - php

I am a PHP-newbie. This is my code for sending an email with PHP.
mail("xxxx#gmail.com", "the subject", $message,
"From: webmaster#example.com \r\n"
."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
You can find it here in php sandbox:
http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/88e1df4ddf90cdf64d5e04c2c2da4c10dfb801ee
But it doesn' work.
Do I need to setup an SMTP connection? If so, how?

Yep, SMTP is more stable method;
Just use https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Please try this code, and if you would like to run this code in Localhost then you have to Configure SMTP details in PHP.ini. this code will run in Live hosting without any error, you can also design HTML Message with this code.
$to_email='xxxx#gmail.com'
$email="webmaster#example.com";
$headers = "From: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
$subject = 'Demo Mail';
$message = 'Your Message'
mail($to_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

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PHP generated emails not delivered to Cc

I am using PHP's mail() function to generate mails. Generated mail looks absolutely fine with correct email ids in 'To' and 'Cc' but mail gets delivered to 'To' only and not to 'Cc'.
Here is the code
$headers = "From: xyz#abc.com \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: xyz#abc.com";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: email1#abc.com ; email2#abc.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/". phpversion();
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1". "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Our organsation uses 365 for mails, and this issue has mostly cropped up since we started migration. I went through the php mail log and it seems to be fine to me.
How to fix this issue? Any suggestions?
PS. I feel that this issue has cropped up only since we moved to 365 some time ago. Also, does id 'xyz#abc.com' (sender) need to exist?
$headers .= "Reply-To: xyz#abc.com";
Where is the "\r\n" on this line?
For a proper and standardized PHP mailing library which will help your team to properly build emails, take a look at:
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Replace the ; to an , in your CC line:
$headers .= "Cc: email1#abc.com ; email2#abc" . "\r\n";
Or send your mails over IMAP with a class like PHPMailer https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

How we can a Send PHP email to gmail archive

How we can a Send a email using PHP mail function to gmail archive mail folder?
My code
$to = "myemail#gmail.com";
$subject = "Subject" ;
$message = 'Example message with <b>html</b>';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: xxx <xxx>' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
Note:
Smile email/mail function is fully functional but I want to send mail to gmail archive folder directly.Is there any way to do that?
It depends on the recipient's e-mail settings, you can't do that on the sender side.

Mail issue on live server

I mail using php mail function to send e-mail. In my dev server its working fine but in live server e-mail goes to spam folder.
<?php
$to = "example#gmail.com";
$subject = "Registration";
$from = "example1#gmail.com";
$content = "Test";
$headers = "From: Test <" . strip_tags($from) . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version:1.0" ."\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
$res = mail($to,$subject,$content,$headers);
$headers = "From: Test <" . strip_tags($to) . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version:1.0" ."\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP". phpversion() ."\r\n";
$res2 = mail($from,$subject,$content,$headers);
The problem is simple that the PHP-Mail function is not using a well configured SMTP Server.
Nowadays Email-Clients and Servers perform massive checks on the emails sending server, like Reverse-DNS-Lookups, Graylisting and whatevs. All this tests will fail with the php mail() function. If you are using a dynamic ip, its even worse.
Use the PHPMailer-Class and configure it to use smtp-auth along with a well configured, dedicated SMTP Server (either a local one, or a remote one) and your problems are gone.
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
answered by mrdognose
and use full headers..
http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/avoid-spam-filters-with-php-mail-emails/
Prevent sent emails treated as junk mails using php mail function

php mail function error on windows hosting

Mail function now not working my server. i cannot find out the solution for that. i am getting bellow this error when i submitting the contact form.
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 Sender is not allowed. in E:\HostingSpace\abayamtranslations.com\httpdocs\contact-form\classes\contact.php on line 137
ERROR! Please ensure PHP Mail() is correctly configured on this server.
$address = "info#abayamtranslations.com";
ini_set("SMTP","mail.abayamtranslations.com");
ini_set("smtp_port","25");
ini_set('sendmail_from','info#abayamtranslations.com');
$headers = "From: $email" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" . PHP_EOL;
Try with the following
$emailFrom = "info#abayamtranslations.com"; // match this to the domain you are sending email from
$email = "example#example.com";
$subject = "Subject of email";
$headers = 'From:' . $emailFrom . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $email;
$message = "Message of email";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
"550 Sender is not allowed" means that the SMTP Blocked Senders list rejected the sender. Search your SMTP log for 550 Sender is not allowed and figure out what address is getting blocked and then alter your list to let that through.
That is the meaning of the error you are getting. This is from the hMailServer Documentation.
Can you try if the following will work?
<?php
mail('info#abayamtranslations.com','Test Email','This is a test email.',"From: info#abayamtranslations.com");
?>
If it doesn't work, then it's probably due to a misconfiguration in your hMailServer and you would need to check your hMailServer Logs.
You are on the windows server, hence forth you have to change SMTP of windows server.
Better way is to use PHPMailer Library. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Some important information is missing under your SMTP configuration....
username and password is needed to authenticate with the SMTP mail server.....
it easy ti use smtp mailing in php with:
PHPMailer (https://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailerhttps://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer)
have a look into it....
Thankyou....

php mail function with customizes from value

Why does this send emails?
$from_admin = $_POST[EMAIL];
$message_admin = 'some html...';
mail($to_admin,"subject",$message_admin,"FROM:$from_admin");
This email looks like it came from my gmail account.
While this doesn't send the email.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To:' . $to . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Registration <register#myserver.org>' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
When I contacted my hosting support, they said that I need to do SMTP authentication. But, then why does the first mail function work? I would be ok if its not actually using that server, but people can reply the the html email and still reach the correct account. Is there any way around this?

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