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Monday, October 12, 2009

Send Mail using SMTP and PHP.

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This post about "Sending Mail using SMTP and PHP". Now you can send emails with SMTP authentication using this script. Every mail needed server authentication, So you have to buy mail server. It's very useful you can implement this on your web projects.

Send Mail using SMTP and PHP
This tutorial contains three files.

- Index.php
- SMTPconfig.php // SMTP Server Cofiguration
- SMTPClass.php // SMTP Mail Sending Class


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SMTPconfig.php
You have to change SMTP server details.
<?php
//Server Address
$SmtpServer="127.0.0.1";
$SmtpPort="25"; //default
$SmtpUser="username";
$SmtpPass="password";
?>

SMTPclass.php
SMTP mail sending class.
<?php
class SMTPClient
{

function SMTPClient ($SmtpServer, $SmtpPort, $SmtpUser, $SmtpPass, $from, $to, $subject, $body)
{

$this->SmtpServer = $SmtpServer;
$this->SmtpUser = base64_encode ($SmtpUser);
$this->SmtpPass = base64_encode ($SmtpPass);
$this->from = $from;
$this->to = $to;
$this->subject = $subject;
$this->body = $body;

if ($SmtpPort == "")
{
$this->PortSMTP = 25;
}
else
{
$this->PortSMTP = $SmtpPort;
}
}

function SendMail ()
{
if ($SMTPIN = fsockopen ($this->SmtpServer, $this->PortSMTP))
{
fputs ($SMTPIN, "EHLO ".$HTTP_HOST."\r\n");
$talk["hello"] = fgets ( $SMTPIN, 1024 );
fputs($SMTPIN, "auth login\r\n");
$talk["res"]=fgets($SMTPIN,1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, $this->SmtpUser."\r\n");
$talk["user"]=fgets($SMTPIN,1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, $this->SmtpPass."\r\n");
$talk["pass"]=fgets($SMTPIN,256);
fputs ($SMTPIN, "MAIL FROM: <".$this->from.">\r\n");
$talk["From"] = fgets ( $SMTPIN, 1024 );
fputs ($SMTPIN, "RCPT TO: <".$this->to.">\r\n");
$talk["To"] = fgets ($SMTPIN, 1024);
fputs($SMTPIN, "DATA\r\n");
$talk["data"]=fgets( $SMTPIN,1024 );
fputs($SMTPIN, "To: <".$this->to.">\r\nFrom: <".$this->from.">\r\nSubject:".$this->subject."\r\n\r\n\r\n".$this->body."\r\n.\r\n");
$talk["send"]=fgets($SMTPIN,256);
//CLOSE CONNECTION AND EXIT ...
fputs ($SMTPIN, "QUIT\r\n");
fclose($SMTPIN);
//
}
return $talk;
}
}
?>

index.php
<?php
include('SMTPconfig.php');
include('SMTPClass.php');
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")
{
$to = $_POST['to'];
$from = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['sub'];
$body = $_POST['message'];
$SMTPMail = new SMTPClient ($SmtpServer, $SmtpPort, $SmtpUser, $SmtpPass, $from, $to, $subject, $body);
$SMTPChat = $SMTPMail->SendMail();
}
?>
<form method="post" action="">
To:<input type="text" name="to" />
From :<input type='text' name="from" />
Subject :<input type='text' name="sub" />
Message :<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value=" Send " />
</form>

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8 comments
Anonymous said...

Thanks. Very useful.

scvinodkumar said...

Nice coding...

Anonymous said...

a piece of great code, thanks.

by the way, is there method to default the coding of the email as unicode(UTF8)?

gustavo said...

how can i add cc: ???

beezy said...

does this work for gmail smtp servers?

Srinivas Tamada said...

@beezy

No

Anonymous said...

You need to use unsecure mail servers that use port 25. Check your IP for details (if you have an email account with them, look under SMTP configuration for Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)

Anonymous said...

does it work for aol smtp server?

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