Question

When I change providers I always have to make sendmail work and it’s a real drag.

Are there any free providers I can use within my PHP code to send the same variables like keycodes for registration verification and stuff?

I tried looking on Google but I only found stuff that had form generators, which is not what I need.

Answer 1

Right now Swift Mailer is one of the best mail solutions around for PHP. It’s highly modular and can easily be configured to suit your needs. You could define multiple transports (in a config file for example) and use the one you need when you change providers.

Here is an example 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);