Question

I am using ubuntu on my virtual machine. I would like to send emails using catchmail as described here: http://berk.es/2011/05/29/mailcatcher-for-drupal-and-other-php-applications-the-simple-version/

I am trying to send emails like that:

//Mailer class:
class Mailer extends PHPMailer
{
public $UTF8Encode = false;
public function __construct($param = null)
{   
    parent::__construct($param);
    $this->Mailer = 'sendmail';
    $this->Sendmail = 'smtp://localhost:1025';
    $this->From   = '[e-mail]';
    $this->FromName = 'Support';
    $this->WordWrap = 50;
    $this->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
}
}

....etc....

And:

//Sending emails

$mail = new Mailer();
$mail->Body = "xxxx";
$mail->Subject = "xxx";
$mail->From = '[e-mail]';
$mail->FromName = 'Support';
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->AddAddress([e-mail]);

And I am getting the error:

Could not execute: smtp://localhost:1025

Answer 1

$this->Mailer = 'sendmail';
$this->Sendmail = 'smtp://localhost:1025';

The problem with this is you’re telling PHPMailer to use a command line program called sendmail instead of using smtp. And PHPMailer tries to do something like:

exec("smtp://localhost:1025 --args-and-stuff");

And as you can tell this won’t work.

To tell PHPMailer to use smtp you need to do the following:

$this->Mailer = 'smtp';
$this->Host = 'localhost';
$this->Port = 1025;

If your SMTP server needs Authentification you can do that as follows:

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "yourname@yourdomain";
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";