Sending email via Phpmailer to Gmail

Question

I can’t at all send an email to my Gmail account via PHP. I had a previous project where I tried to use phpmailer and I can’t get it to work properly (2 months trying). Now I finished a website and just put it on the air, and the phpmailer doesn’t work.

Follow my HTML code:

<form class="coluna coluna-3" method="POST" action="email.php">
    Nome:<br/>
    <input type="text" name="nome" maxlength="50"/><br/>
    e-mail:<br/>
    <input type="text" name="email" maxlength="50"/><br/>
    Assunto:<br/>
    <input type="text" name="assunto" maxlength="50"/><br/>
    Mensagem:<br/>
    <textarea name="mensagem" rows="10" cols="50" maxlength="500"></textarea>
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Enviar"/>
</form>

And this is the code from my file email.php:

// Inclui o arquivo class.phpmailer.php localizado na pasta phpmailer
require_once('../phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');//já tentei sem ../ também
// Inicia a classe PHPMailer
$mail = new PHPMailer();
// Define os dados do servidor e tipo de conexão
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
$mail->IsSMTP(true); // Define que a mensagem será SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // Endereço do servidor SMTP
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Usa autenticação SMTP? (opcional)
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Username = '[email protected]'; // Usuário do servidor SMTP
$mail->Password = 'minhasenha'; // Senha do servidor SMTP
// Define o remetente
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
$mail->From = "[email protected]"; // Seu e-mail
$mail->FromName = "Joãozinho"; // Seu nome
// Define os destinatário(s)
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
$mail->AddAddress('[email protected]', 'Fulano da Silva');
// Define os dados técnicos da Mensagem
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Define que o e-mail será enviado como HTML
// Define a mensagem (Texto e Assunto)
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
$mail->Subject  = "Mensagem Teste"; // Assunto da mensagem
$mail->Body = "Este é o corpo da mensagem de teste, em <b>HTML</b>!  :)";
$mail->AltBody = "Este é o corpo da mensagem de teste, em Texto Plano! \r\n :)";
// Define os anexos (opcional)
// =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
//$mail->AddAttachment("c:/temp/documento.pdf", "novo_nome.pdf");  // Insere um anexo
// Envia o e-mail
$enviado = $mail->Send();
// Limpa os destinatários e os anexos
$mail->ClearAllRecipients();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
// Exibe uma mensagem de resultado
if ($enviado) {
  echo "E-mail enviado com sucesso!";
}
else {
  echo "Não foi possível enviar o e-mail.";
  echo "<b>Informações do erro:</b> " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

It’s unnecessary to add CSS code because it won’t help at all.

I’m sending an email to myself because I’m just testing if it works. When it works, I put the texts through $_POST properly.

I’m in localhost, use Ubuntu-MATE 15.04, my server is the Apache2. The site is in /var/www/meuprojeto/ inside the briefcase meuproject, is a folder phpmailer with two files downloaded from Github - "class.phpmailer.php" and "class.smtp.php"
(follow this tutorial: Send emails via PHP using phpmailer).

To find out information from Gmail, I looked at: Send emails via PHP and SMTP using Gmail or Google Apps .

Any additional information required, just ask.

Answer 1

Without any error information it is very difficult to treat the problem. Suppose you are using version 5 of Phpmailer.

Include in your file the call from autoload :

require('phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');

Activate the debug:

// 1 = Erros e mensagens
// 2 = Apenas mensagens
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 1; 

Make sure your credentials are correct;

Answer 2

You need to sign in to your Gmail account and

[enable sending by less secure Apps]

or you won’t send.

Also, please change :

De: $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

Para: $mail->SMTPSecure = '**tls**';

Now send.

Answer 3

Just to complement this post, there is another solution to email gmail from the php backend. It was the only solution that worked for me.

Just download, use the Swiftmailer and the code below. In addition, you need to change a setting in Gmail to allow access to less secure devices (google my Account -> Sign-in & security -> Conected apps & websites -> Allow Less Secure apps: ON). Due to this setting, I believe it is not a definitive solution to send emails to Gmail, but as in my case I am only using to do some tests, no problem.

Original post with this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/712392/send-email-using-the-gmail-smtp-server-from-a-php-page

<?php
require_once 'swift/lib/swift_required.php';

$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 465, "ssl")
  ->setUsername('GMAIL_USERNAME')
  ->setPassword('GMAIL_PASSWORD');

$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Test Subject')
  ->setFrom(array('[email protected]' => 'ABC'))
  ->setTo(array('[email protected]'))
  ->setBody('This is a test mail.');

$result = $mailer->send($message);
?>

Answer 4

In the require_once just put the /phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php. Since it’s at the root of the project, it might work, or just phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php.