PHPMailer: SMTP Authentication

PHPMailer: SMTP Authentication

Most of the hosting providers today disable anonymous user on their server or do not allow to send mail through script without SMTP authentication to stop the spamming from their servers. In such cases, you have to use SMTP authentication to send mail through PHP, ASP, or ASP.Net script. Below is the sample SMTP authentication script to send mail through PHP script using PHPMailer:

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.domain.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "email@domain.com"; // SMTP username

$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "email@domain.com";
$mail->FromName = "Name";
$mail->AddAddress("Recipient@emailaddress.com","Name");
$mail->AddReplyTo("yourname@domain.com","Your Name");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap

$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";

?>

For more info about the PHPMailer Class, visit phpmailer.codeworxtech.com