Sending emails via Gmail SMTP with PHPmailer
Had to use PHPMailer to send emails via Gmail SMTP and the PHPMailer version I was using was old skool but with a download of the latest code everything was good :-)
Below is a quick snippet of the code and the SMTPSecure property was key:
<?php
require_once('./system/classes/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; //use 2 for full on report
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "raj.gorsia[at]gmail.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "enter_here"; // SMTP password
$mail->Port = 456; // SMTP port
$mail->From = "raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk";
$mail->FromName = "PHPology";
$mail->AddAddress("raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk");
$mail->AddReplyTo("raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->SetLanguage("en", './system/classes/phpmailer/language/');
if($mail->Send()) {
echo "sent";
} else {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>