Sending mails in PHP using Yahoo SMTP - php

Question

How can I send an email via Yahoo!'s SMTP servers in PHP?

Answer 1

You should use something like Swift Mailer or PHPMailer. The following example is for Swift:
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
->setSubject('Your subject')
->setFrom(array('john#doe.com' => 'John Doe'))
->setTo(array('receiver#domain.org', 'other#domain.org' => 'A name'))
->setBody('Here is the message itself')
->addPart('<q>Here is the message itself</q>', 'text/html')
;
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.mail.yahoo.com', 465, 'ssl')
->setUsername('your username')
->setPassword('your password')
;
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$result = $mailer->send($message);

Answer 2

You can use PHP's built-in mail() function to send mails, however it is generally very limited. For instance, I don't think you can use other SMTP servers than the one specified in your php.ini file.
Instead you should take a look at the Mail PEAR package. For example:
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "Sandra Sender <sender#example.com>";
$to = "Ramona Recipient <recipient#example.com>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "mail.example.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_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>");
}
?>
(I stole this example from http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm :P)

Answer 3

Read this http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
<?php
$to = 'nobody#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Answer 4

PHP mailer will let you use any SMTP server you like, so long as you have the credentials to log on with.