Due to the amount of requests emailed to me for working source code I have now posted the modified PHPMailer I use in my own projects. Click here to download the library. Here’s an example of how to use the code:
require_once('/phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPGMailer();
$mail->Username = 'user@domain.com';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->From = 'user@domain.com';
$mail->FromName = 'User Name';
$mail->Subject = 'Subject';
$mail->AddAddress('myfriend@domain.com');
$mail->Body = 'Hey buddy, here's an email!';
$mail->Send();
This will work for any GMail or Google Hosted email account. Just make sure to include the @domain.com part for the username, even if it’s for standard GMail. Hope this saves people some hastle.
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I’d have to recommend Swiftmailer by d11wtq from the PHP developers network… it’s much smaller than phpmailer, and is much, much faster (1000+ emails per minute), its plugin system is second to none.
http://www.swiftmailer.org
I’m sorry to say this, but I get this errors:
I’m using your modified PHPmailer and a very simple PHP code based on your example.
require_once(’phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php’);
$mail = new PHPGMailer();
$mail->Username = ‘test@gmail.com’;
$mail->Password = ‘****’;
$mail->From = ‘XXX@gmail.com’;
$mail->FromName = ‘test User Name’;
$mail->Subject = ‘Test Subject’;
$mail->AddAddress(’YYYY@gmail.com’);
$mail->Body = ‘Hey buddy, heres an email!’;
$mail->Host = ’smtp.gmail.com’; //
$mail->Port = 465; //
//$mail->Mailer = ’smtp’; //
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true; //
$mail->Send();
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo “Message could not be sent. “;
echo “Mailer Error: ” . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo “Message has been sent”;
Well, I get:
>>Message could not be sent.
>>Mailer Error: The following From address failed: XXXt@gmail.com
“From adress” always fails, whatever I try.
I have to use this or I get a fsock() error:
$mail->Host = ’smtp.gmail.com’; //
$mail->Port = 465; //
Thank you in advance!!!
KBronCT, the reason that it didn’t work for you is because you tried to overide the default Host and Port fields for the $mail object. You ONLY have to change/edit the fields that I show in my example.
Thank you very much!
I’ll try tomorrow and see…
Um… is it just me or does everyone else get a 404 when they click on the link to download?
Sorry about that, link is fixed now.
Error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 in /home/***/public_html/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105
Message was not sent. Mailer Error: Language string failed to load: connect_host
Code:
Username = “***@gmail.com”;
$mail->Password = “***”;
$mail->From = “test@test.com”;
$mail->FromName = “Tester”;
$mail->Subject = “TEST”;
$mail->Body = “This is a test”;
$mail->AddAddress(”***@yahoo.com”);
if (!$mail->Send()) {
echo “Message was not sent. “;
echo “Mailer Error: ” . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo “Message has been sent.”;
}
?>
first things first . . . this is awesome. got it to work without any problems.
that being said, how would i send it to a dynamic email address and include dynamic variables in the body?
thanks pvulgaris – great tool!
I also get this error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 in /home/***/class.smtp.php on line 105
Any recommendations much appreciated.
Thanks for your script. It works perfect for me!
I had that last error too!
I also have this problem:
Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support
how do I enable SSL support.
I had run the phpinfo() function and the output tells that the SSL is enabled. I don’t know how to solve this problem!
I receive this error
Message was not sentMailer Error: Language string failed to load: from_failedfrom@email.com
Yesh! Thanks a lot! This post has saved tons of my time!
I receive this error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in D:\WindowsApacheMySQLPHP\www\PHP\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
What’s going on?
Also, when I look at phpinfo(), it has no mention whatsoever of SSL.
Thank you so much for this solution. I’ve been scouring the net for days trying to figure this out until I found this post. Umm, google, do a better job of finding this post! I’ll add some more keywords.
installing php phpmailer php_mail google gmail google apps your my domain
Thanks again!
I am also not able to get this to work:
PHP Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support in this build in C:\www\phpHelpers\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
PHP Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 in C:\www\phpHelpers\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
here is the code I am using:
$mail = new PHPGMailer();
$mail->Username = ‘****@gmail.com’;
$mail->Password = ‘*********’;
$mail->From = ‘****@gmail.com’;
$mail->FromName = ‘Me Me’;
$mail->Subject = ‘email test’;
$mail->AddAddress(’*****@hotmail.com’);
$mail->Body = ‘here is an email!’;
$mail->Send();
any ideas?
PHP Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support in this build in C:\www\phpHelpers\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
php must be compiled with –with-openssl
my code is as follows and I am getting following error.
Message was not sent
Mailer Error: The following From address failed: rekhakulka@gmail.com
SetLanguage(’en’,'c:/phpmailer/language/’);
$mail->PluginDir = “c:/php/”;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = “smtp.gmail.com”; // SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = “true”; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = “rekhakulka@gmail.com”; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = “kalavati”; // SMTP password
//$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->From = “rekhakulka@gmail.com”;
$mail->FromName = “Rekha”;
$mail->AddAddress(”rekha_harnoor@yahoo.com”);
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = “Here is the subject”;
$mail->Body = “This is the HTML body“;
$mail->AltBody = “This is the text-only body”;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo “Message was not sent “;
echo “Mailer Error: ” . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo “Message has been sent”;
?>
Great!!!!Good script!!!!!
After all the changes, What is the final script then???
Thank for this script – it works but not on every server
I put this script on two different servers – on first it works perfectly, on second there’s an error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection refused) in /homepages/39/d164239424/htdocs/http_docs/phpgmailer/inc/class.smtp.php on line 105
Message could not be sent.
Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
I think it has something to do with php configuration on server, but I don’t know how to fix that. I will be gratefull for any ideas
Monia, double check that your have the OpenSSL package installed for PHP. Look here for more information.
Grrr…
I have the page with code bellow inside directory phpmailer.
IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = “smtp.gmail.com”; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = “josefadegas”; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = “xxxxxxx”; // SMTP password
$mail->From = “josefadegas@gmail.com”;
$mail->FromName = “Testar”;
$mail->AddAddress(”josefadegas@yahoo.com”);
//$mail->AddAddress(”ellen@site.com”); // optional name
//$mail->AddReplyTo(”info@site.com”,”Information”);
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
//$mail->AddAttachment(”"); // attachment
//$mail->AddAttachment(”");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = “titulo”;
$mail->Body = “This is the HTML body“;
$mail->AltBody = “texto”;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo “Message was not sent “;
echo “Mailer Error: ” . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo “Message has been sent”;
?>
And always give me this error:
Message was not sent
Mailer Error: The following From address failed: josefadegas@gmail.com
Help me please
I got next error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
I found in my phpinfo next:
openssl
OpenSSL support enabled
OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006
Help me please
Thanks, it worked for me!!! I just had to enable openssl.
Hi, Dear, i got phpmailer working on my local machine, i enabled openssl by using ini_set() function and it worked for me.
When i put the same files on my webhost, error occurred
Mailer Error: Language string failed to load: connect_host
can anyone help me solving this error? plz help me! Bye
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! olcxrrauqanz
I don’t have words to express how grateful I am to you for having done this.
I have a deadline tomorrow, and had spend almost the whole night trying to get this to work (It’s almost 4). I found you page about 10 minutes back, and now it’s done
Thanks a lot.. it is working like a charm.
I got PHP Version 5.1.6, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006.
I get the famous error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:587 (Permission denied) in /var/www/html/system/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 107
Mailer Error: Language string failed to load: connect_host
Any Ideas?
I solute the person who re-wrote the phpmailer class for google mail, i have been looking for this for the past good two weeks. Nothing works, no matter what i tried. Opened number of threads on various website no one has a clue.
However the jigsaw puzzled is solved. Make sure just copying and overwritting your phpgmailer from this website won’t solve your problem.
Here are few steps make sure you performed this before scratching your head?
Php.ini
1) Specify your php extension folder probably on line 524.
extension_dir =”C:\Program Files\PHP\ext” or of your choice.
2) uncomment
;extension=php_openssl.dll probably on line 668.
3) and make sure you copied (php_openssl.dll) under this directory.
extension_dir =”C:\Program Files\PHP\ext” or of your choice from above.(1)
4) restart apache
5) open command prompt (CMD) and type php -v, see if it says any missing files, copy those missing files.
in your mail just use this lines and please don’t specify SMTPAuth and Port. Its already taken care inside the revised copies of phpgmailer and smtp class files.
$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = “ssl://smtp.gmail.com”; // SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = “true”; // Not required
$mail->Username = “xxx@googlemail.com”; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = “xxx”; // SMTP password
//$mail->Port = 465; // Not Required
Hope this helps someone.
Hai,
I am having this error Pls mail me how to correct it,
mail id hiranvnath@gmail.com
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in C:\wamp\www\phpgmailprog\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
Pls find a way to correct it
Hello,
.
Words won’t be sufficient to thank you. First I tried to send mail with inbuilt mail(), no success. After some time tried phpmailer, tried to use local host, my isp’s host, nothing worked. On this and third attempt, it worked. Only effort involved was, downloading your library, copying the code, changing the appropriate fields and voila it worked.
I was preparing myself for a long battle with this, but your library prevented a war
Thanks and keep going.
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Thanks, man. You saved me some serious headaches with this class
Great script, works like a charm. Now I can move on to step 3 of my project, formatting an email for an outlook calendar event.
Thanks again, really good work.
Hi,
I got the folowing error(s):
* warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Permission denied) in /var/www/html/weblog/sites/all/modules/smtp/smtp.module on line 1878.
* warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /var/www/html/weblog/sites/all/modules/smtp/smtp.module on line 1878.
* warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://:465 (Unknown error) in /var/www/html/weblog/sites/all/modules/smtp/smtp.module on line 1878.
I fear i forgot to configure something on my fedora installation. Can somebody please help me further?
best regards,
Great script! However, the “Sender” variable doesnt seem to register appropriately. Reply-to is always the same as the sender address. This one little flaw pretty much prevents me from using this class on a more advanced level.
Great tip, I like your script.
Do you have any idea if there is there is a limit to emails sent ?
I want to use gmail as my default smtp sever and I want to be sure that I will not get banned or emails will note be sent because of to many mails sent.
Thanks
WHY M I GETTING THIS. HOW TO ENABLE SSL.I m geting the following error.
Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? (code: -1, response: )]
Kenny,
I had experienced exactly the same problem:
* warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Permission denied) in /var/www/html/…/sites/all/modules/smtp/smtp.module on line 1878.
I also had the following error message:
Error sending email: “SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.” From: “xxxxxxxx@gmail.com”
I simply disabled SELinux via Security Level COnfiguration tool, the problem went away.
Hope it’d help.
David
Is it possible to use this with google apps for domains?
I have a domain hosted at google but i alwasy get this error when I try:
Message was not sent. Mailer Error: The following From address failed: name@domain.com
I had used this very script to get Google Apps running on my server, but unfortunately I have had to remove it some time back.
I just wanted to share why I had to do so.
A very little known fact is that if you send over 500 emails a day, Google assumes that you are a spambot and stops your services. Of course, there are no emails to tell you that this has happened.
I found out that it wasn’t working when I realized that the number of people clicking on the activation link had dropped to about 0%
About 2000 people registered on the site in over two weeks, so the number of emails was way below what Google’s self imposed limit of 500 a day. But you can’t fight google can you? After all, there not the ones who are evil.
So if you are starting with Gmail or Google Apps take the above into account before you shift completely. It just might not be worth the effort.
In all other cases, this script is god sent.
Much love..
PS. I had commented before here : http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2006/10/13/update-send-email-with-php-and-gmail-hosted-for-your-domain/#comment-2691
I used the basic example shown at the begining and I checked also the module OpenSSL (enabled) but it does not work for me ! I have a problem of connection timed out. See below:
“Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in /home/mywishli/ma-liste-cadeaux/include/phpgmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105″
I tried and tried again but no solution. Please HELP !
@str
PHP Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support in this build in C:\www\phpHelpers\phpgmailer\class.smtp.php on line 105
php must be compiled with –with-openssl
I have OpenSSL, php_openssl, and ssl_module for Apache, and I’m getting this error. I’m using Windows and wamp, so compiling it will suck.
I receive this error:
Warning: fsockopen(): no SSL support in this build in \class.smtp.php on line 105
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 in ….class.smtp.php on line 105
I use SSL in my email setting, it not working otherwise.
Under the territory
C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\php\extensions
i have php_openssl.dll file, version of 14/12/2004
In my php.ini:
extension=php_openssl.dll is uncomment
I have also set this variable:
extension_dir: C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\php\extensions
I don’t know what to do?
Any suggestion?
I am using Windows ME, do i need to compile if yes, how do i compile php?
Thanks
I have run phpinfo,
What should i have in the variable:
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"], in the mailto should i have my email, or
Apache/1.3.33 Server at ….. Port is ok?