PHPMailer send the messages with my server email - php

Question

as written on the subject, PHPMailer send the messages with my server email, not the email of the actual sender.
for example:
from: sendername myservername#server.com
the sender email doesn't show up on the email from section
here is my code
$result = mysql_query($insert_query, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
if($result)
{
require_once('../se482/class.phpmailer.php');
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
//$mail->IsSMTP(true);
$mail = new PHPMailer; // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'myemail#gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'mypassowrd'; // SMTP password
$mail->Priority = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Encoding = '8bit';
$mail->addAddress('myemail#gmail.com'); // Add a recipient
$mail->setFrom($email, $name);
//$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->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = $comment;
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->Send();
$mail->SmtpClose();
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
}

Answer 1

You have to include class.smtp.php as well to use smtp. Also uncomment //$mail->isSMTP(true);
As mentioned in documentation to avoid this you can include only autoloader class that is PHPMailerAutoload.php
updated code
$result = mysql_query($insert_query, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
if($result)
{
//require_once('../se482/class.phpmailer.php');
// require_once('../se482/class.smtp.php');
//or
require_once('../se482/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(true);
$mail = new PHPMailer; // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'myemail#gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'mypassowrd'; // SMTP password
$mail->Priority = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Encoding = '8bit';
$mail->addAddress('myemail#gmail.com'); // Add a recipient
$mail->setFrom($email, $name);
//$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->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = $comment;
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->Send();
$mail->SmtpClose();
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
}
Update
You have also add your app credential in get_auth_token.php as mentioned in documentation for use gmail. Here is link https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Using-Gmail-with-XOAUTH2

Answer 2

$mail->from is set to $email which isn't defined anywhere.