Comments on: Sending e-mails via SMTP with PHPmailer and GMail

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:08:44 +0000

Hello Tor,
Yes it’s a requirement for many SMTP services. The “reply-to” option is okay for most e-mail clients except Gmail

By: Tor

Tor — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:23:17 +0000

Okay, it seems the reply-to is getting set correctly. I suppose the From email address setting is a Google security feature.

By: Tor

Tor — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:18:44 +0000

I’m able to send mail fine, but it seems SetFrom() is not working. It is always using my gmail username email address as the return path / reply to, though it uses the correct from name.
Are you able to get the from : email overridden? I need our users to be able to send us emails and have the return path be correct.

By: B

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:51:38 +0000

hi! this is a great tutorial however i get this error message under Windows: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mail error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
But it works fine with Ubuntu. Any help on how i could fix it? Thanks

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:12:59 +0000

You need to download the class and of course you need to fix the paths

By: praveen

praveen — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:04:31 +0000

when i process this a error occur saying “Fatal error: Class ‘PHPMailer’ not found in C:\wamp\www\praveen pro\sms.php on line 9″ means they not found this class in php

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:33:20 +0000

Hello,
this code works for every PHP installation, because you’re using the PHPmailer class for the e-mail transport. The external SMTP server is used instead of a local mail server.

Maybe you need to open some ports in your firewall.

By: praveen

praveen — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:49:38 +0000

im having a problem that i have install wamp server 2.1 and i want to send from this install computer to my gmail. i dont install any mail server or anything other than wamp server 2.1 and internet.
please help, what are the suitable way to process this,

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:15:31 +0000

Hello Steve,
thanks for the link, I noticed this kind of information before but this page answers a lot of questions. I used my Google Apps account while testing the code and never had a problem with the script and the Google mail servers.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:15:37 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post. It’s been very helpful. One suggestion for the sending limit is to upgrade for Google Apps (the free version). The limits for that are outlined here: https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166852

You’ll notice on the bottom this line of text:
If you have a local mail server, connect to Google Apps mail servers using SMTP or SSL; the sending limits do not apply in this configuration.

Perfect for my use =)