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[Tut] Send Email from Localhost using PHP with SMTP and PHPMailer - xSicKxBot - 08-18-2022
Send Email from Localhost using PHP with SMTP and PHPMailer
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/send-email-from-localhost-using-php-with-smtp-and-phpmailer.jpg" width="550" height="215" title="" alt="" /></div><div><div class="modified-on" readability="7.1111111111111"> by <a href="https://phppot.com/about/">Vincy</a>. Last modified on August 17th, 2022.</div>
<p>Localhost is the web developer’s favorite home. Local development environment is always convenient to develop and debug scripts.</p>
<p>Mailing via a script with in-built PHP <a href="https://phppot.com/php/functions-in-php/">function</a>. This may not work almost always in a localhost. You need to have a sendmail program and appropriate configurations.</p>
<p>If the <a href="https://phppot.com/php/php-mail/">PHP mail()</a> is not working on your localhost, there is an alternate solution to sending email. You can use a SMTP server and send email from localhost and it is the popular choice for sending emails for PHP programmers.</p>
<p>This example shows code to use PHPMailer to send email using SMTP from localhost.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-18983" src="https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mail-sending-from-localhost-using-smtp-550x215.jpg" alt="mail sending from localhost using smtp" width="550" height="215" srcset="https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mail-sending-from-localhost-using-smtp-550x215.jpg 550w, https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mail-sending-from-localhost-using-smtp-300x117.jpg 300w, https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mail-sending-from-localhost-using-smtp-768x300.jpg 768w, https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mail-sending-from-localhost-using-smtp.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px"></p>
<h2>PHP Mail sending script with SMTP</h2>
<p>This program uses the PHPMailer library to connect SMTP to send emails. You can test this in your localhost server. You need access to a SMTP server.</p>
<p>Before running this code, configure the SMTP settings to set the following details.</p>
<ol>
<li>Authentication directive and security protocol.</li>
<li>Configure SMTP credentials to authenticate and authorize mail sending script.</li>
<li>Add From, To and Reply-To addresses using the PHPMailer object.</li>
<li>Build email body and add subject before sending the email.</li>
</ol>
<p>The above steps are mandatory with the PHPMailer mail sending code. Added to that, this mailing library supports many features. Some of them are,</p>
<p>Set the SMTP Debug = 4 in development mode to print the status details of the mail-sending script.</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code class="language-php"><?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception; require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/phpmailer/src/Exception.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/phpmailer/src/SMTP.php'; $mail = new PHPMailer(true); $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'SET-SMTP-HOST';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Port = 465; $mail->mailer = "smtp"; $mail->Username = 'SET-SMTP-USERNAME';
$mail->Password = 'SET-SMTP-PASSWORD'; // Sender and recipient address
$mail->SetFrom('SET-SENDER-EMAIL', 'SET-SENDER_NAME');
$mail->addAddress('ADD-RECIPIENT-EMAIL', 'ADD-RECIPIENT-NAME');
$mail->addReplyTo('ADD-REPLY-TO-EMAIL', 'ADD-REPLY-TO-NAME'); // Setting the subject and body
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Send email from localhost using PHP";
$mail->Body = 'Hello World!'; if ($mail->send()) { echo "Email is sent successfully.";
} else { echo "Error in sending an email. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
?>
</code></pre>
<h2>Google and Microsoft disabled insecure authentication</h2>
<p>Earlier, programmers conveniently used GMail’s SMTP server for sending emails via PHP. Now, less secure APPs configuration in Google is disabled. Google and Microsoft force authentication via OAuth 2 to send email.</p>
<p>There is ill-informed text going around in this topic. People say that we cannot send email via Google SMTP any more. That is not the case. They have changed the authentication method.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT</strong>: I have written an article to help you <a href="https://phppot.com/php/sending-email-using-phpmailer-with-gmail-xoauth2/">send email using xOAuth2 via PHP</a>. You can use this and continue to send email using Google or other email service providers who force to use OAuth.</p>
<h2>Alternate: Enabling PHP’s built-in mail()</h2>
<ol>
<li>If you do not have access to an email SMTP server.</li>
<li>If you are not able to use xOAuth2 and Google / Microsoft’s mailing service.</li>
</ol>
<p>In the above situations, you may try to setup your own server in localhost. Yes! that is possible and it will work.</p>
<p>PHP has a built-in mail function to send emails without using any third-party libraries.</p>
<p>The mail() function is capable of simple mail sending requirements in PHP.</p>
<p>In localhost, it will not work without setting the <a href="https://phppot.com/php/php-ini-file/">php.ini configuration</a>. Find the following section in your php.ini file and set the sendmail path and related configuration.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-18981" src="https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/php.ini-mail-setting-550x310.jpg" alt="php.ini mail setting" width="550" height="310" srcset="https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/php.ini-mail-setting-550x310.jpg 550w, https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/php.ini-mail-setting-300x169.jpg 300w, https://phppot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/php.ini-mail-setting.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px"></p>
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