PHPmailer without using SMTP - php

Question

I've added the PHPMailer folder to my root folder on my web server and I just get an error that has to do with SMTP.
Is there a way to use PHPMailer without needing to log into a mail account?
Can I just have the server send the email to a address?
I was searching this site and found this
$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->From = 'you#example.com';
$email->FromName = 'Your Name';
$email->Subject = 'Message Subject';
$email->Body = $bodytext;
$email->AddAddress( 'destinationaddress#example.com' );
$file_to_attach = 'PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';
$email->AddAttachment( $file_to_attach , 'NameOfFile.pdf' );
return $email->Send();
But I get an error that says "Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: You must provide at least one recipient email address."

Answer 1

I commented out the SMTP lines and now it works
<?php
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
//$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
//$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
//$mail->Username = ''; // SMTP username
//$mail->Password = ''; // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
//$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('name#domain.com', '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(''); // 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';
}
?>

Answer 2

Joseph Kreifels II is correct.
In particular, see the comments in the class.phpmailer.php file:
/**
* Sets Mailer to send message using SMTP.
* #return void
*/
public function IsSMTP() {
$this->Mailer = 'smtp';
}
/**
* Sets Mailer to send message using PHP mail() function.
* #return void
*/
public function IsMail() {
$this->Mailer = 'mail';
}
/**
* Sets Mailer to send message using the $Sendmail program.
* #return void
*/
public function IsSendmail() {
if (!stristr(ini_get('sendmail_path'), 'sendmail')) {
$this->Sendmail = '/var/qmail/bin/sendmail';
}
$this->Mailer = 'sendmail';
}
So, be sure to remove $mail->IsSMTP(); from your settings, but also you may need to add $mail->IsMail(); or $mail->IsSendmail(); depending on your server setup.