Send email from a PHP script

PHPMailer is a powerful email transport class. Sending email using PHPMailer is simple.

PHPMailer features:-



• Supports emails digitally signed with S/MIME encryption!
• Supports emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
• Works on any platform.
• Supports Text & HTML emails.
• Embedded image support.
• Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email.
• Flexible debugging.
• Custom mail headers.
• Redundant SMTP servers.
• Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding.
• Word wrap.
• Multiple fs, string, and binary attachments (those from database, string, etc).
• SMTP authentication.
• Tested on multiple SMTP servers: Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Gmail, Imail, Exchange, etc.
• Good documentation, many examples included in download.
• It's swift, small, and simple.

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How to use

Download PHPMailer from http://sourceforge.net/projects/PHPmailer
Extract it into your web directory.
Turn on SSL support.
Use the following code to send email.

Sample code

include("/lib/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // Creating PHPMailer object
$body = "Hai hello, this is my first mail using PHPMailer. ";
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465"; // SMTP Server.
/*
Setting gmail as the SMTP Server
*/
$mail->Username = "myphpapp@gmail.com"; // username [Gmail]
$mail->Password = "mypassword"; // password for myphpapp
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format";
$mail->Subject = "Say hello!"; // This is the subject
$mail->From = "myphpapp@gmail.com"; // From email-id
$mail->FromName = "PHP Developer"; // From Name
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAddress("toaddress@gmail.com","Name"); // To address.
$mail->IsHTML(true);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?> 

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