PHP and SMTP server - php

Question

My simple code below:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: info#mail.com \r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: test#mail.com' . "\r\n";
$subject = "Information";
if (mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
$mail_status = "success";
} else {
$mail_status = "fail";
}
if ($mail_status == "success") echo '{"status":"success"}';
How can I support SMTP support?

Answer 1

As You mentioned PHPMailer in tags. You can use PHPMailer Class for this process.
require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional,
//gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$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->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 26; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourname#yourdomain"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp, basic with authentication";
$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");
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
Source: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=examplebsmtp

Answer 2

SMTP server has to be configured on server, but by PHP, which is a programming language. Ask Server admin to provide you SMTP details.
SMTP information can be set in php.ini or via ini_set()
Example:
ini_set("SMTP","smtp.example.com" );
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'user#example.com');
By the way, if you require SMTP Authentication, mail() does not support it. Try to use other PHP mail library such as SwiftMailer or PHPMailer.