PHPMailer – LostInSoftware

In this post we are going to explain how to send emails using PHPMailer from a 1and1 server.

On the one hand, we have a config.php file where we configure the main parameters.

define('EMAIL_CHARSET', 'UTF-8');
define('SMTP_SERVER', 'smtp.1and1.com');
define('EMAIL_USERNAME', '<your 1and1 account>');
define('EMAIL_PASSWORD', '<your password>');
define('EMAIL_PORT', '25');

define('EMAIL_FROM', '<your from email>');
define('EMAIL_FROM_NAME', '<your from name email>');
define('EMAIL_REPLY', '<your reply email>');
define('EMAIL_REPLY_NAME', '<your reply name email>');

define('EMAIL_CHARSET', 'UTF-8');

define('SMTP_SERVER', 'smtp.1and1.com');

define('EMAIL_USERNAME', '<your 1and1 account>');

define('EMAIL_PASSWORD', '<your password>');

define('EMAIL_PORT', '25');

define('EMAIL_FROM', '<your from email>');

define('EMAIL_FROM_NAME', '<your from name email>');

define('EMAIL_REPLY', '<your reply email>');

define('EMAIL_REPLY_NAME', '<your reply name email>');

On the other hand, here you have a sample of a php class using PHPMailer for sending emails.

<?php
require 'config.php';
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
 
class EMail {
 
  public static function sendMail($to, $subject, $message, $message_plain) {
   $mail = new PHPMailer;
   
   $mail->CharSet = EMAIL_CHARSET;
   $mail->isSMTP();                           // Set mailer to use SMTP
   $mail->Host = SMTP_SERVER;  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
   $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                    // Enable SMTP authentication
   $mail->Username = EMAIL_USERNAME;          // SMTP username
   $mail->Password = EMAIL_PASSWORD;          // SMTP password
   $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                 // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
   
   $mail->From = EMAIL_FROM;
   $mail->FromName = EMAIL_FROM_NAME;
   $mail->addAddress($to);     // Add a recipient
   $mail->addReplyTo(EMAIL_REPLY, EMAIL_REPLY_NAME);
   // $mail->addCC('cc@example.com');
   // $mail->addBCC('bcc@example.com');
   
   $mail->WordWrap = 80; // Set word wrap to 80 characters
   // $mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         // Add attachments
   // $mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name
   $mail->isHTML(true);  // Set email format to HTML
   $mail->Port = EMAIL_PORT;
   
   $mail->Subject = $subject;
   $mail->Body    = $message;
   if (!empty($message_plain)) {
      $mail->AltBody = $message_plain;
   }
   
   if(!$mail->send()) {
     return false;
   } else {
     return true;
   }
  }
}
?>

<?php

require 'config.php';

require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

class EMail {

public static function sendMail($to, $subject, $message, $message_plain) {

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->CharSet = EMAIL_CHARSET;

$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP

$mail->Host = SMTP_SERVER; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers

$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication

$mail->Username = EMAIL_USERNAME; // SMTP username

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

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted

$mail->From = EMAIL_FROM;

$mail->FromName = EMAIL_FROM_NAME;

$mail->addAddress($to); // Add a recipient

$mail->addReplyTo(EMAIL_REPLY, EMAIL_REPLY_NAME);

// $mail->addCC('cc@example.com');

// $mail->addBCC('bcc@example.com');

$mail->WordWrap = 80; // Set word wrap to 80 characters

// $mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments

// $mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name

$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Port = EMAIL_PORT;

$mail->Subject = $subject;

$mail->Body = $message;

if (!empty($message_plain)) {

$mail->AltBody = $message_plain;

}

if(!$mail->send()) {

return false;

} else {

return true;

}