Sending emails from 1and1 with PHPMailer

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>');

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;
   }
  }
}
?>