I manage to sent message to my gmail account using phpmailer library through local
host in my xampp but the message has 'root user' shown instead of the gmail account set to $mail->SetFrom how to remove this 'root user' and show the appropriate name.
<?php
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Username = "georgediamei1234#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com'; // SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->FromName ='georgediamei1234#gmail.com';
$mail->AddAddress("nowtonkhurai#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = "";
$mail->Body = "Hello, <b>Is photo attached</b>!\n\n This message uses HTML entities!";
$mail->addStringAttachment("$string","08DsAlg.pdf", "base64","application/pdf");
if($mail->send()) {
echo "Email sent";
} else {
echo 'Not send '.$mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'Mailer');
I also got stumbled with that root problem. You have to set a mail id and a name in setFrom property. As the question was asked 2 years ago it might not be helpful to you but it might help others who get stuck with the same stuff.
use both function for name and email address like this :
$mail->From = "from#example.com";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
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I have installed php mailer using composer composer require phpmailer/phpmailer. I followed instructions from this website https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-send-an-email-using-phpmailer.
Below is my code for sending email.
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try
{
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'mail.example.in';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'username';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->setFrom('owner#gmail.com', 'Owner');
$mail->addAddress('receipent#gmail.com');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Hello this is subject";
$mail->Body = "Hello this is message;
$mail->send();
echo "Mail has been sent successfully!";
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
When I comment $mail->isSMTP(); and send mail, I get the result as message sent but I dont get it in my Gmail inbox.
when I uncomment $mail->isSMTP(); I get error message as shown in below image.
My project is hosted in godaddy server.
Even if I use php mail() function to send mail, response is mail send successfully, but it does not get delivered into my Gmail inbox
If you want to use Gmail, you should follow the steps here to manually add Google MX records to your GoDaddy account:
https://uk.godaddy.com/help/point-my-domains-email-service-to-google-7936
Unfortunately it takes some days for changes to be reflected.
Then you need to disable security features, change your php mailer config like:
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Port = 25;
Hope this solves.
------EDIT------
Later I figured out that the emails go to spam folder when the port is 25. I changed the connection to TLS and now I receive them as normal.
Here is the code from my website, it works on Godaddy, I receive e-mails to my gmail account.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'true';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Username = "********#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "**********";
$mail->SetFrom("********#gmail.com");
$mail->AddAddress("********#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = " your subject";
$mail->Body = "your body";
Hello guys I get this error:
The following From address failed: username_from#gmail.com : Called Mail() without being connected
<?php
require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$msg = 'hello world!';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'username#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->From = 'username_from#gmail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'My name';
$mail->AddAddress('other_user#gmail.com', '');
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'hello';
$mail->Body = $msg;
if(!$mail->Send()){
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
How can I fix it? Thanks! I send email from localhost running XAMPP in PHP using Gmail mail server.
Possible reason for error:
you have to edit your gmail account permissions. Trying enabling the 'Access for less secure apps' Security setting.
may be,you're using an old version of PHPMailer - update it.
Don't use ssl/465 for gmail; use tls/587. Take a look at the gmail example code provided with PHPMailer.
You don't need to call singleTo if you're only adding one address anyway.
Try and set Host to smtp.gmail.com
you can add $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only so you can see some debug statements?
I am trying following code to send mail
but it is showing
Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
and gmail is informing me that Sign-in attempt prevented
<?php
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'sss#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = '*******';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->From = 'abc#gmail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'asdf ';
$mail->addAddress('abc#gmail.com', 'sadf ');
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Using PHPMailer";
$mail->Body = "Hi Iam using PHPMailer library to sent SMTP mail from localhost";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo "Message could not be sent.";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
How to resolve above problem?
Try the following steps:
enable debug mode to catch possible errors
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
also check for SSL support in php configuration file (php.ini)
extension=php_openssl.dll
You need set permission for send mail with gmail.
- Login Google Account
- Go Privacy Page
- Allow third party apps
After try this code:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourusername#gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // GMAIL password
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "whoto#otherdomain.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
Since you are getting email from Google, it describes the email is trying to send but it is blocked by Google. Do the following steps.
I hope this helps.
Check if IMAP is enabled
Check here and enable less secure apps
Display Unlock Captcha
change the following in your code
isSMTP() to IsSMTP() , addAddress() to AddAddress() & isHTML() to IsHTML().
and yes check the ports also. sometoimes port also off which do not let connection to be established.
Hope it will work!
I think you have to enable POP and IMAP in you gamil. Try this
Sign in to Gmail
Click the gear in the top right.
Select Settings.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Select Enable IMAP.
Click Save Changes.
<?
$account="email_address#gmail.com";
$password="accountpassword";
$to="mail#subinsb.com";
$from="email_address#gmail.com";
$from_name="Name";
$msg="<strong>This is a bold text.</strong>"; // HTML message
$subject="Database Backup";
/*End Config*/
include("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth= true;
$mail->Port = 465; // Or 587
$mail->Username= $account;
$mail->Password= $password;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName= $from_name;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->addAddress($to);
if(!$mail->send()){
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}else{
echo "E-Mail has been sent";
}
?>
i want to send email after user checkout from cart
my controller:
include('js/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server Gmail
$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->Username = "my gmail"; //
$mail->Password = "my pass"; // SMTP password
$webmaster_email = "my gmail"; //Reply to this email ID
$email = "recipient gmail"; // Recipients email ID
$name = "John"; // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->FromName = "Aryono King";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"Goeboek I-Mut");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "Subject Test";
$mail->Body = "Test Content"; //HTML Body
if(!$mail->Send()) {echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;}
else {echo "<strong>Email Send</strong>";}
but it show error like this
2015-05-20 21:46:43 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0) 2015-05-20 21:46:43 SMTP connect() failed. Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
what's the problem? i can't solve it, i search everywhere and i can't fint the answer, please someone help me
Take a look at the example here.
While personally, I do it like this:
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = $email_mail; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = $email_pass; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 465; // TCP port to connect to
Try to check against yours, like for example: $mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';, which supposed to be don't have ssl://.
Two things you need to check before using phpmailer for gmail
need to check whether SMTP port and email + password is correct or not
You need to authenticate from your gmail account for sending email from unsecured sources, means: when first you send an email, google will send you an email asking your permission to allow to forward email from your id, here your required to click allow
One more thing, Port 587 is working perfectly for me, instead of 465
Hi,
there's more...I have seen that antivirus or firewall installed in your computer may block sending emails via localhost as it may considered as spam attacks
use this code...
include 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
function send_mail($mail_to,$mail_to_fname,$mail_to_lname,$subject,$message)
{ $mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
$mail->Host = 'mail.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = " YOUR GMAIL ";
$mail->Password = " YOUR GMAIL PASSWORD";
$mail->setFrom(' YOUR GMAIL ', ' YOUR NAME ');
$mail->addAddress($mail_to,$mail_to_fname . " " . $mail_to_lname);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->msgHTML($message);
$mail->AltBody = ' ';
if (!$mail->send()){echo "FALSE" . $mail->ErrorInfo;}
else{echo "TRUE";}
}
// How to user
// send_email(" email address where to send "," reciepient first name ","reciepient last name "," subject ", " message as html code ");
you need to do one more step for allowing gmail to send messages...!
(*) accept to allow google to send emails from unsecured apps, that link will be sent to your gmail, after you send first email
okay, so I already try it for many times. The results was not error but I didn't receive any e-mail in my inbox or spam folder
here is my mail.php
<?php
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
//$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
//$mail->Host = "localhost"; // SMTP server
//IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = true;
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server Gmail
$mail->Mailer = "gmail";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = "henrikus.antony#gmail.com"; //
$mail->Password = "******"; // SMTP password
$webmaster_email = "henrikus.antony#gmail.com"; //Reply to this email ID
$email = "rikunime.share#gmail.com"; // Recipients email ID
$name = "Hendrikus Anthony"; // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->FromName = "Anthony";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"Anthony");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "Ini adalah Email HTML";
$mail->Body = "Ini adalah email contoh"; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
please someone, I really need help. do I need a hosting? or there are something wrong with my syntax? whether sendmail.ini and php.ini affect the mail.php?
Here is my solution which I found out from couple of articles.
<?php
require_once "vendor/autoload.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Enable SMTP debugging.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;
//Set PHPMailer to use SMTP.
$mail->isSMTP();
//Set SMTP host name
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//Set this to true if SMTP host requires authentication to send email
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Provide username and password
$mail->Username = "name#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
//If SMTP requires TLS encryption then set it
//$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
//Set TCP port to connect to
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->From = "name#gmail.com";
$mail->FromName = "Full Name";
$mail->smtpConnect(
array(
"ssl" => array(
"verify_peer" => false,
"verify_peer_name" => false,
"allow_self_signed" => true
)
)
);
$mail->addAddress("reciever#ymail.com", "Recepient Name");
$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 won't require any server settings on your localhost.
$mail->smtpConnect(
array(
"ssl" => array(
"verify_peer" => false,
"verify_peer_name" => false,
"allow_self_signed" => true
)
)
);
This part of code asks smtp not to verify any connection and can send the mail without verifying the sender.
Also you need to enable IMAP settings from your mailbox settings.
Here are the links for reference.
https://www.sitepoint.com/sending-emails-php-phpmailer/
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/issues/368#issuecomment-75821110
You need an SMTP server to send out mail. Assuming you want to use this for testing purposes, try downloading a free SMTP local server such as this one.
If you want to actually send out mail in a production environment, consider using an external service such as SendGrid or MailChimp. Alternatively, if you want to stick with SMTP, you are going to need your own web server to send mail from.
You shouldn't comment out the line that tells the mailer to use smtp except you really want to use the normal mail function,which i don't think you want to
<?php
require 'PhpMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
// change this to 0 if the site is going live
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
//use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "xxxxxx#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "******";
$mail->setFrom('xxx#ww.com', 'Somebody');
$mail->addReplyTo('xxx#ww.com', 'Somebody');
$mail->addAddress('xxx#ww.com', 'Somebody');
$mail->Subject = 'New contact from somebody';
// $message is gotten from the form
$mail->msgHTML($message);
$mail->AltBody = $filteredmessage;
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "We are extremely sorry to inform you that your message
could not be delivered,please try again.";
} else {
echo "Your message was successfully delivered,you would be contacted shortly.";
}
?>
please note you must be connected to the internet for gmail's smtp to work