smtp - PHP Mail sent from localhost to server

Solution:

You can run this snippet of code in python which will allow you to set up a server in localhost. Nothing needs to be changed in php.ini . (In php.ini smtp should be localhost, port should be 25. The default settings). Hope this helps. :)

import smtpd
import smtplib
import asyncore
class SMTPServer(smtpd.SMTPServer):

    def __init__(*args, **kwargs):
        print "Running smtp server on port 25"
        smtpd.SMTPServer.__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def process_message(*args, **kwargs):
        to = args[3][0]
        msg = args[4]
        gmail_user = 'yourgmailhere'
        gmail_pwd = 'yourgmailpassword'
        smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
        smtpserver.ehlo()
        smtpserver.starttls()
        smtpserver.ehlo
        smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
        smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
        print 'sent to '+to
        pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
    smtp_server = SMTPServer(('localhost', 25), None)
    try:
        asyncore.loop()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        smtp_server.close()
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Solution:

The SMTP settings in php.ini only work for Windows hosts.

If you are not running a Windows system you should use an appropriate class to implement SMPT functionality or configure your local sendmail/MTA accordingly.

Solution:

100% working, i have used this in my website too

<?php
$con=mysql_connect("mysql12","","");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
$db=mysql_select_db("data",$con);
if(!$db)
{
die( 'Could not select database'.mysql_error() );
}

$to=$_POST['to'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$body=$_POST['tarea'];

$query="select fname from table where email='$to'";
$fetch=mysql_query($query);

while ($rows=mysql_fetch_array($fetch)) 
{
 $name=$rows['fname'];


$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "To:" .$name. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
}
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Solution:

Colin Morelli is correct in that you will need to authenticate (log in) to use gmail's smtp server. The following is working code. Ref. Send email using the GMail SMTP server from a PHP page

<?php

       require_once "Mail.php";

        $from = "<from.gmail.com>";
        $to = "<to.yahoo.com>";
        $subject = "Hi!";
        $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

        $host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
        $port = "465";
        $username = "[email protected]";  //<> give errors
        $password = "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>");
         }

    ?>  <!-- end of php tag-->
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P.S. Can't you just do:

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");

// Send
mail('[email protected]', 'My Subject', $message);
?>
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Ref. http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

EDIT:

If you want to use a simple class that you can throw in FTP without making server mods, just use PHPMailer:

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->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   = "[email protected]";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";            // GMAIL password

$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'First Last');

$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","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 = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($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!";
}
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Ref. http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=examplebgmail

Solution:

Ok I see the problem I came across this not so long ago

You need a mail server pop3 server or smtp Which requires a static ip and domain named server i.e localhost wont work

Do this set up CURL My Curl Function adjust accordingly

    function CurlMail($The_mail, $The_FamKey, $The_Service ,$The_Client)
{

        //create array of data to be posted

        $post_data['email'] = $The_mail;
        $post_data['FamilyKey'] = $The_FamKey;
        $post_data['Service'] = $The_Service;
        $post_data['Client'] = $The_Client;

        //traverse array and prepare data for posting (key1=value1)
        foreach ( $post_data as $key => $value) 
                {
                    $post_items[] = $key . '=' . $value;
                }
        //create the final string to be posted using implode()
        $post_string = implode ('&', $post_items);
        //create cURL connection
        $curl_connection =  curl_init('http://foo.com/mail.php');
        //set options
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,  "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
        //set data to be posted
        curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
        //perform our request
        $result = curl_exec($curl_connection);
        //show information regarding the request
        print_r(curl_getinfo($curl_connection));
        echo curl_errno($curl_connection) . '-' .curl_error($curl_connection);
        //close the connection
        curl_close($curl_connection);
    }
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Then On a Live server with SMTP set up refer to php.ini for these details MAIL.PHP

ini_set('SMTP', "127.0.0.1");
ini_set('smtp_port', "25");

 $to = "[email protected]";
 $subject = "Test mail";
 $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
 $from = "[email protected]";
 $headers = "From:" . $from;
 mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
 echo "Mail Sent.";
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