Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise. TRUE is just an indication that your mail has successfully submitted to the SMTP server's queue for sending. Getting TRUE doesn't necessarily mean that the email is delivered to the recipient's server. Mail() function returns TRUE if the SMTP server successfully accepted the mail for delivery, else FALSE. PHP by default internally escape the values coming in this parameter with escapeshellcmd() to prevent any potential command execution. For example you can use this parameter to set the envelope sender address when using Sendmail with -f option. This additional_parameter can be used to pass additional flags to the Sendmail program as configured in the sendmail_path configuration setting. You can set the From header, either by using the additional_headers parameter or, you can also set a default value in php.ini. Note: While sending the email, make sure there is a From header. Each additional headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n). This parameter is used to pass any additional email headers like From, Cc and Bcc. To resolve this, replace the dot with a double dot, using the below code:
In case of Windows machine, when PHP is connecting to an SMTP server to sendmail, it removes a full stop which is found at the start of a line. Each line of the email should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n) and each line should not exceed 70 characters. The content of the mail that you want to send. Note, the subject must comply with RFC 2047.
The subject line of the email to be sent. You can pass one email address or multiple using comma-separated.įew sample examples of how the values will look like: Mail (to,subject,message,headers,parameters) In case your PHP setup is not configured for sending email to the outside world, then please refer the steps mentioned at the end of this article. Here in this tutorial, we will be talking about the prerequisites to sending a mail directly from a PHP script, the syntax, and its parameters. PHP comes with a default function mail() that allows you to sendmail directly from a PHP script. For now, pick up the API option.The author voluntarily contributed this tutorial as a part of Pepipost Write to Contribute program.
In this tutorial, we discuss both methods – Email API and SMTP relay. During the signup process, you will be asked to choose the sending method. To get started, you need to register with Mailjet. If your business needs more emails then check out their pricing page.
For small businesses, this free quota is sufficient. Mailjet provides a quota of 6000 free emails per month(200 emails per day). You can also use the Mailjet SMTP service and send your website emails. They provide their own email API to shoot emails. We can easily send emails using Mailjet in PHP. Mailjet is an email delivery service for marketing and developer teams. To avoid these limitations, I found an alternate solution for the Gmail SMTP server which is Mailjet. Second, you need to turn on the ‘allow less secure apps’ setting which is not recommended by Google. You probably want to have your domain email as a sender. Gmail set your email address(Google email id) as the sender. First, you couldn’t set the ‘from’ address while sending the email. But there are 2 problems using this Google service. Gmail SMTP server is a quite popular choice among people. To resolve this problem you must use SMTP servers to send your website emails. As a result, most of the users are missing your important emails. If you are using PHP’s mail() function then soon you will realize your emails are ending in the spam and not in the user’s inbox. The website owners regularly need to send emails to the users.