Sending E-mail from PHP
For Sending external emails from websites to to domains that do not exist on our mail servers, the regular PHP mail() functions can not be used as SMTP authentication is required for mail relay. If using Joomla or wordpress, you can change them to use SMTP authentication within the program.
If you are using a generic script that relies on the mail() function to send external emails then you will need to enable smtp authentication to send mails via our servers. Below is a fully functional script to send e-mails submitted from a contact form.
The username, password and server name will need to be replaced with a valid email account on your domain that is running on our servers to allow sending mails.
NOTE !!! Please remove the asterix's * in the red php tag lines
<*?*php
if ($_POST["email"]<>'') {
//NOTE if using php 5.4 or earlier use
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
//NOTE if using php 5.5 or older uncomment this line and comment out the class.phpmailer.php line above
//require_once('phpmailerautoload.php');
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = "smtp.yourdomain.co.za";
//Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 25;
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "validuser@yourdomain.co.za";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "validuserspassword";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('fromwho@yourdomain.co.za','First Last');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
//$mail->addReplyTo('$_POST["email', 'First Last');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('towho@yourdomain.co.za', 'website contact');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'Website Contact Feedback';
$message=
'Name: '.$_POST['name'].'<br />
Email: '.$_POST['email'].'<br />
Company: '.$_POST['company'].'<br />
Telephone: '.$_POST['telephone'].'<br />
Comments: '.$_POST['comment'].'<br />
'.nl2br($_POST['message']).'
';
$mail->msgHTML($message);
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
//$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//Attach an image file
//$mail->addAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.png');
//send the message, check for errors
//if (!$mail->send()) {
//echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
//} else {
//echo "Your Message was successfully sent!";
//}
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo '<p class="contact-message">Message could not be sent.</p>';
echo '<p class="contact-message">Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '</p>';
} else {
echo '<br><br><p class="contact-message" align="center">Your message has been sent. We will be in touch.';
}
?*>
<*?*php
} else {
?*>
<form action="mailsend.php" method="post">
<table width="500" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td width="29%" class="bodytext">Name:</td>
<td width="71%"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="32"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext">Email Address:</td>
<td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="32"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext">Company</td>
<td><input name="company" type="text" id="company" size="32" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext">Telephone</td>
<td><input name="telephone" type="text" id="telephone" size="32" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext">Comment:</td>
<td><textarea name="comment" cols="45" rows="6" id="comment" class="bodytext"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext"> </td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<*?*php
};
?*>
