Question

I have the following code which sets up the SMTP server:

ini_set("send_from", "[e-mail]");
ini_set("SMTP", "smtp.gmail.com");

and i create a simple mail in this way:

mail("[e-mail]", "A subject", "My message for you", "From: TEST");

When I run this code, it fails to send mail to Yahoo e.g. [e-mail]. But when i use any Gmail mail address as the first argument, it works.

What’s wrong ?

Answer 1

In thi case you dont auth (user name passwort) and dont usw tls. This wont be accepted.

Better use this:

XAMPP Sendmail using Gmail account

or an framework to send emails via smtp like

Zend Mail Gmail SMTP

http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.mail.sending.html

Here a code example

http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest#ZF1

require('Zend/Mail.php');

$config = array(
    'ssl' => 'tls',
    'port' => 587,
    'auth' => 'login',
    'username' => '[e-mail]',
    'password' => 'password'
);
$smtpConnection = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', $config);

Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport($smtpConnection);

Zend_Mail::setDefaultFrom('[e-mail]', 'Your real name');

$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->addTo('[e-mail]', 'Test');

$mail->setSubject(
        'Demonstration - Sending Mails per SMTP Connection'
    );

$mail->setBodyText('...Your message here...');

$mail->send($smtpConnection);