PHP/Mail
From charlesreid1
Sending email with PHP:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14456673/sending-email-with-php-from-an-smtp-server#14456761
Procedure:
- Open port 465
- Put PHPMailer on your PHP include path
- From the PHP script you want to send email from, include PHPMailer
- Drop in your SMTP credentials
- Now you're able to send off emails
Namecheap:
- Username: your email address
- Password: password for this email account
- Incoming/outgoing servers name: mail.privateemail.com
- Incoming server type: IMAP or POP3
- Incoming server (IMAP): 993 port for SSL
- Incoming server (POP3): 995 port for SSL
- Outgoing server (SMTP): 465 port for SSL
Installing PHPMailer
Visit PHPMailer: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Copy the contents of the PHPMailer folder into one of the include_path directories specified in your PHP configuration
Opening Port
<?php ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Include PHP mailer stuff use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer; use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception; require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php'; require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php'; require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php'; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Set SMTP credentials $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8'; $mail->Host = "mail.example.com"; // SMTP server example $mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing) $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication $mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server $mail->Username = "username"; // SMTP account username example $mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP account password example ?>