PHPmailer without using SMTP

Question

I've added the PHPMailer folder to my root folder on my web server and I just get an error that has to do with SMTP.

Is there a way to use PHPMailer without needing to log into a mail account? Can I just have the server send the email to a address?

I was searching this site and found this

$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->From      = 'you@example.com';
$email->FromName  = 'Your Name';
$email->Subject   = 'Message Subject';
$email->Body      = $bodytext;
$email->AddAddress( 'destinationaddress@example.com' );

$file_to_attach = 'PATH_OF_YOUR_FILE_HERE';

$email->AddAttachment( $file_to_attach , 'NameOfFile.pdf' );

return $email->Send();

But I get an error that says "Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: You must provide at least one recipient email address."

I just got an email from google saying they blocked the SMTP attempt, guess thats where the error came from... I'm gonna try again. But please answer my question — Joseph Kreifels II, Sep 06 '15 at 20:27
same error: Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting — Joseph Kreifels II, Sep 06 '15 at 20:33
Its hosted on a webserver that I pay a subscription for... I just commented out all the SMTP lines and left everything else, it works, i get an email from "Mailer from@example.com" — Joseph Kreifels II, Sep 06 '15 at 20:45
yup that's using mail(), no reason to use gmail when your already paying for a mail-server — , Sep 06 '15 at 20:46
Not rocket science: if you tell it to use SMTP, it will; If you don't, it won't. — Synchro, Sep 07 '15 at 06:42

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '15 at 21:44

I commented out the SMTP lines and now it works

<?php

require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

//$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
//$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
//$mail->Username = '';                 // SMTP username
//$mail->Password = '';                           // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
//$mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->From = 'from@example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('name@domain.com', 'User');     // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen@example.com');               // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info@example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc@example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc@example.com');

$mail->addAttachment('');         // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name
$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

if(!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 10 '18 at 15:34

Joseph Kreifels II is correct.

In particular, see the comments in the class.phpmailer.php file:

/**
 * Sets Mailer to send message using SMTP.
 * @return void
 */
public function IsSMTP() {
   $this->Mailer = 'smtp';
}

/**
 * Sets Mailer to send message using PHP mail() function.
 * @return void
 */
public function IsMail() {
  $this->Mailer = 'mail';
}

/**
 * Sets Mailer to send message using the $Sendmail program.
 * @return void
 */
public function IsSendmail() {
  if (!stristr(ini_get('sendmail_path'), 'sendmail')) {
    $this->Sendmail = '/var/qmail/bin/sendmail';
  }
  $this->Mailer = 'sendmail';
}

So, be sure to remove $mail->IsSMTP(); from your settings, but also you may need to add $mail->IsMail(); or $mail->IsSendmail(); depending on your server setup.

PHPmailer without using SMTP

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