I'm getting an error with the following code when trying to send an email. It works on my local machine but not when I put it on my AWS LAMP server. I cannot debug anything because I'm getting an HTTP 500 error when I run the script. However, I know PEAR is installed.
Code:
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "Email<Test#example.com>";
$to = "steve#exmaple.com";
$subject = "ERROR REPORT";
$body = "test message";
$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port = "465";
$username = "test#gmail.com";
$password = "pass1";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("Error message sent!");
}
It appears to be bugging out at the send() command above. Any suggestions on how to better debug this?
Try the following two lines:
ini_set('display_errors','on');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
Placing those two early in the script bypasses the php.ini settings that would hide the errors otherwise. Hope that helps!
Also, if you can, place them in the PHP file that gets called and then include the file that uses the mail functions. That way, you avoid the code above not working due to a syntax error.
Have a look at the web server's error log, i.e. /var/log/apache2/error.log.
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I'm a bit stuck here. I have some websites hosted on TSOHosts. I use the php mail() function to send the occassional email, e.g. from a contact form.
The emails have stopped working, and nobody at the hosting provider seems to be capable of fixing it.
They say I should use SMTP emails. OK, I get that, they point me to this article on how to do it:
https://www.lifewire.com/send-email-from-php-script-using-smtp-authentication-and-ssl-1171197
So I write the script (below) and, it doesnt work:
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "NoReply#mysite.org.uk";
$to = "me#myemailaddress.co.uk";
$subject = "Hi port 465";
$body = "Hello World";
$host = "ssl://mail3.gridhost.co.uk";
$port = "465";
$username = "username#mysite.org.uk;
$password = "Testing123";
$headers = array (
'From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail))
{
echo "<p>".$mail->getMessage()."</p>";
}
else
{
echo"<p>Message successfully sent!</p>";
}
I also have a port 25, non-ssl script, that also doesnt work.
When I say doesnt work, its not throwing an error, just no email arrives (checked in spam).
The hosting company first asked me where the Mail.php is as referred to by the require_once "Mail.php" line
The article suggests that this should be installed on php4+ (Im using 5.6.37)
This is remarkably similar to this article:
smtp configuration for php mail
But I am stummped as to how to proceed.
I'm working on a script that will send text messages via email (i.e. ####txt.att.net) and PHP's simple mail() function was not working. I could send email messages just fine through that method, but the texts were not being delivered. I did more research and found that carriers often block messages without a sender and using PEAR with SMTP is a better solution.
However, the following code works to send emails but is still not delivering AT&T text messages:
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "XXX <XXX>";
$to = "XXX <XXX#txt.att.net>";
$subject = "Test email using PHP SMTP\r\n\r\n";
$body = "This is a test email message";
$host = "XXX";
$port = "26";
$username = "XXX";
$password = "XXX";
$headers = array (
'From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array (
'host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>
Is it maybe an issue with headers not being formatted correctly, etc? Any ideas?
According to their example you do not need the new lines after the subject:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.send.php
Check the AT&T response they might decline it if they have you blacklisted or you do not have a valid rDNS or other reasons.
They seem to experience a problem seeing the rDNS records of some IP's.
Use this it will tell you all the info you need.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xmail-the-right-way
Post the log of it here.
I was having an issue with emails generated by a PHP script going to user's junk/spam email folders, and was led to believe that installing PEAR and the associated mail package and adding SMTP authentication would fix the issue. So I do so using cPanel. Unfortunately, after some testing, I find that emails are still going to my junk folder. Below is the script in its current form.
I'm not sure what else to try to troubleshoot this. I contacted my provider and they just came back with some general info on spam/junk folders which wasn't very helpful!
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Nick
<?php
require_once "/home/..../php/Mail.php";
$from = "";
$to = "";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "";
$username = "";
$password = "";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>
Here is an excellent and details example of both a form and the PEAR script - it might help you debug: https://solutions.hostmysite.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/8460/0/using-pear-mail-to-create-a-php-mail-form-that-uses-authenticationauthentication-is-required-by-hostmysite
I have opened a site in a free web hosting company which is not offering mail() facility so I have decided to implement this facility of sending emails using G-mail's SMTP server.
I have used PEAR' Mail package to send mails. It works fine locally but unfortunately its not all working in my website's server.
When the page is opened, it produces a blank white screen even no errors are being mentioned. You can check here to see the script run.
This is my code:
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "username#gmail.com";
$to = "username#yahoo.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port = "465";
$username = "username#gmail.com";
$password = "*****";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail= $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>
Can anyone help me to understand what's going wrong?
You maybe forgot to upload the Mail.php file or one of the dependencies. A white page often indicates a fatal error.
Gmail blocks some web hosting providers. Contact you your web hosting provider.
I am using following code to send email using mail.google
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "someone#somedomain.com";
$to = "otherone#somedomain.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port = "465";
$username = "mygmailaccount#gmail.com";
$password = "mygmailpassword";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>
This code works fine on Windows Development Machine but not on my Amazon Linux Server ?
Please tell me if any additional configuration is required.
Mail.php isn't the only file needed for sending mails via SMTP. You need the following files:
Mail.php
PEAR.php
PEAR5.php
Mail/smtp.php
Net/SMTP.php
Net/Socket.php
Mail/RFC822.php
At least these files were needed when I tried out your example on my own linux server.
I don't know how this Amazon web stuff is working but you probably need to look at some log-file or enable error messages in HTML output somehow or increase the warning level to find out what's really going wrong.
If you want to install the files manually you can download them from here:
http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR/download/
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/download/
http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket/download/
http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP/download/