Question

So I wrote a php script that sends a user a temporary password for when the forget their password so they can login and change it. The script works fine, and the email gets sent with all the correct information. The thing i want to change is who it is getting sent by. I want to use google email app for websites to send those emails, rather the emails are getting sent by my webserver. Here’s what the sending part of my script looks like:

$email_to = $_POST["email"];
$email_from = "[e-mail]";
$email_subject = "Account Information Recovery";
$email_message = "Here is your temporary password:\n\n";

$email_message .= "Password: ".$password."\n";
$email_message .= "\nPlease log into your account and immediately change your password.";

// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

However when I receive the email, it comes from Admin@webserver. How do I use google’s email app to send these emails?

Answer 1

I would suggest Swiftmailer. It’s got a very nice and well-documented API, and supports all different kinds of transports.

From the docs:

require_once 'lib/swift_required.php';

// Create the Transport
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.example.org', 25)
  ->setUsername('your username')
  ->setPassword('your password')
  ;

/*
You could alternatively use a different transport such as Sendmail or Mail:

// Sendmail
$transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');

// Mail
$transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance();
*/

// Create the Mailer using your created Transport
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

// Create a message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Wonderful Subject')
  ->setFrom(array('[e-mail]' => 'John Doe'))
  ->setTo(array('[e-mail]', '[e-mail]' => 'A name'))
  ->setBody('Here is the message itself')
  ;

// Send the message
$result = $mailer->send($message);