Many people have posted about this before, but exactly because is a basic matter, is good to post my opinion on this subject.
About 4 years ago, I had to create a PHP code to send e-mail, but may lack of know how made me forget to make the mail function to work out. Besides, not everytime you can make such fixes on your server. This lead me to create the mail using sockets and sending commands to the smtp server of my preference.
In that time, hotmail, yahoo and gmail allowed the use of the smtp commands by telnet without worries. They hadn’t implemented at all the security protocols, like ssl or tls. That’s a good thing they had implemented security, of course. But,… and programming? What’s the difference now?
You cant say that the old code will still work out fine. It really can’t! if you try the correct commands on the telnet, all you’ll get is the client disconnection on the 3rd command sent to server. Fortunately, PEAR have a implementation of the SMTP protocol and have everything there to be used.
To install the package on your development machine, just type on the console (as a root if you are on linux)
- pear install Net_SMTP
- pear install Mail
Then its just to use some code like the one below:
require_once 'Mail.php';
class MyMail{
private $to;
private $from;
private $subject = "Testando envio autenticado pelo Google";
private $body = "Teste efetuado com sucesso!";
private $host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
private $port = 25;
private $username;
private $password;
public function getTo(){
return $this->to;
}
public function setTo($t){
$this->to = $t;
}
public function getFrom(){
return $this->from;
}
public function setFrom($f){
$this->from = $f;
}
public function getSubject(){
return $this->subject;
}
public function setSubject($s){
$this->subject = $s;
}
public function getBody(){
return $this->body;
}
public function setBody($b){
$this->body = $b;
}
public function getHost(){
return $this->host;
}
public function setHost($h){
$this->host = $h;
}
public function getPort(){
return $this->port;
}
public function setPort($p){
$this->port = $p;
}
public function getUsername(){
return $this->username;
}
public function setUsername($un){
$this->username = $un;
}
public function getPassword(){
return $this->password;
}
public function setPassword($p){
$this->password = $p;
}
public function send(){
$headers = array ('From' => $this->getFrom(),
'To' => $this->getTo(),
'Subject' => $this->getSubject());
$smtp = Mail::factory("smtp", array ('host' => $this->getHost(),
'port' => $this->getPort(), // SMTPS(para mais detalhes ver /etc/services
'auth' => true,
'debug' => true, // Debug ligado
'username' => $this->getUsername(),
'password' => $this->getPassword())
);
$rc = $smtp->send($this->;to, $headers, $this->body);
if(PEAR::isError($rc)){
echo("<h1>Error " . $rc->getMessage(). "</h1>");
} else {
echo("Email enviado com sucesso!!");
}
}
}
It’s a preliminary class, so, many enhancements can be made to make the class better, but it just works as expected. Example to use? see below:
if(isset($_POST)){
require_once 'MyMail.class.php';
$ms = new MyMail();
$ms->setFrom('me@gmail.com');
$ms->setTo('noone@gmail.com');
$ms->setHost('smtp.google.com');
$ms->setPort('25');
$ms->setUsername('me@gmail.com');
$ms->setPassword('p@ssw0rd');
$ms->setBody('Test Message using PHP');
$ms->setSubject('Test');
$ms->send();
}
This will produce the following stream to be sent to the server:
DEBUG: Recv: 220 mx.google.com ESMTP 23sm733843qyk.3
DEBUG: Send: EHLO localhost
DEBUG: Recv: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [189.70.93.58]
DEBUG: Recv: 250-SIZE 35651584
DEBUG: Recv: 250-8BITMIME
DEBUG: Recv: 250-STARTTLS
DEBUG: Recv: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
DEBUG: Recv: 250 PIPELINING
DEBUG: Send: STARTTLS
DEBUG: Recv: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
DEBUG: Send: EHLO localhost
DEBUG: Recv: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [189.70.93.58]
DEBUG: Recv: 250-SIZE 35651584
DEBUG: Recv: 250-8BITMIME
DEBUG: Recv: 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
DEBUG: Recv: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
DEBUG: Recv: 250 PIPELINING
DEBUG: Send: AUTH LOGIN
DEBUG: Recv: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
DEBUG: Send: ZmFiaW8uY2VzYXIubWVkZWlyb3NAZ21haWwuY29t
DEBUG: Recv: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
DEBUG: Send: ZG1hdGRtYXQwMQ==
DEBUG: Recv: 235 2.7.0 Accepted
DEBUG: Send: MAIL FROM:<sender-mail@gmail.com>
DEBUG: Recv: 250 2.1.0 OK 23sm733843qyk.3
DEBUG: Send: RCPT TO:<receiver-email@gmail.com>
DEBUG: Recv: 250 2.1.5 OK 23sm733843qyk.3
DEBUG: Send: DATA
DEBUG: Recv: 354 Go ahead 23sm733843qyk.3
DEBUG: Send: From: sender-email@gmail.com
To: receiver-email@gmail.com
Subject: Teste de e-mail
Teste de E-mail via Sockets
.
DEBUG: Recv: 250 2.0.0 OK 1256749304 23sm733843qyk.3
DEBUG: Send: QUIT
DEBUG: Recv: 221 2.0.0 closing connection 23sm733843qyk.3
