How to send Email From your Web server with the PHPMailer (SMTP)

By Mehul Kareliya 27 Nov, 2024 64 mins read 112 views

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In this tutorial, we have Send mail using php PHPMailer (SMTP) there are 2 types of mail send

1) send mail Learn Click here
2) PHPMailer (SMTP)

Send mail via PHPMailer (SMTP)

Download phpmailer via Composer you can install

Commands are below

cd public_html

composer2 require phpmailer/phpmailer

Here put some sample code. for full source code click download now end of post

$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;                   
$mail->isSMTP();                        
$mail->Host       = 'smtp.gfg.com;';    
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;               
$mail->Username   = 'demo@demo.com';    
$mail->Password   = 'password';         
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';              
$mail->Port       = 587;

$mail->setFrom('from@from.com', 'Name');                
$mail->addAddress('receiver1@receiver1.com');           
$mail->addAddress('receiver2@receiver2.com', 'Name');

Recipients of the mail.

$mail->addAttachment('url', 'filename');    // Name is optional

For attachments

isHTML(): If passed true, sets the email format to HTML.
Subject:   subject of the Mail.
Body:  contents of the Mail.

Add the content.

$mail->isHTML(true);                                  
$mail->Subject = 'Subject';
$mail->Body    = 'HTML message body in bold!';
$mail->AltBody = 'Body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

$mail->send();

Finally, send the email.

 $mail->send();

Complete PHP code to send e-mail using PHPMailer.

Sample code


  require 'vendor/autoload.php';
  use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
  $mail = new PHPMailer;
  $mail->isSMTP();
  $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
  $mail->Host = 'smtp.hostinger.com';
  $mail->Port = 587;
  $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
  $mail->Username = 'demo@demo.com';
  $mail->Password = 'Demo@123';
  $mail->setFrom('from@from.com', 'Your Name');
  $mail->addReplyTo('replay@replay.com', 'Your Name');
  $mail->addAddress('recipient@recipient.com', 'Receiver Name');
  $mail->Subject = 'Checking if PHPMailer works';
  $mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('message.html'), __DIR__);
  $mail->Body = 'This is just a plain text message body';
  //$mail->addAttachment('attachment.txt');
  if (!$mail->send()) {
      echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
  } else {
      echo 'The email message was sent.';
  }
?>