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If you ever need to send email from PHP and don’t have access to a SMTP server, but do have a GMail account use this code as a template.

You will need:

• PHP Pear::Mail class installed
• A GMail account
• Port 465 open to smtp.gmail.com in your firewall

<?php
include('Mail.php');
 
$from =     "user@host.com";
$to =       "user@host.com";
$subject =  "Your subject here";
$body =     "\n\nEmail contents here";
$host =     "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port =     "465";
$username = "your_gmail_email@gmail.com";
$password = "yourGmailPassword";
 
$headers = array (
         'From' => $from,
         'To' => $to,
         'Subject' => $subject);
 
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
      array (
            'host' => $host,
            'port' => $port,
            'auth' => true,
            'username' => $username,
            'password' => $password));
 
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
 
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) die($mail->getMessage());
 
?>

A couple of important things to note with this code.

First off, its a template, at least have a basic understanding of what it does before you try to use it or ask a question.

Second, yes, its rough and the error handling is poor at best, see the first point.

Third, and if you’ve gotten this far, you probably knew this already, the $smtp->send() function will wait for the socket to close before continuing, so this would probably be best for queued or deferred processing of email.