Mail Service Provider for 0.3.0

[Soupala]

I'm trying to figure out how the email side of this project, and I imagine others will also be interested as well. I currently don't have any SMTP stuff installed my LAMP stack. I want to send the mail securely, and preferably piping through a 3rd party service like Mailgun or SendGrid. Mailgun provides 10,000 free emails/month, so I'm thinking of focusing on figuring out how to do that.

Any thoughts or tips. Is this a priority for anyone else? What are folks currently doing to get sendMail to work?

[mooseknuckle]

I have thought about this too. I host most of my websites on Amazon's EC2 platform, so I also use Amazon's Simple Email Sevice (SES) to send email rather than an SMTP connection. It is a very high priority for me to re-write the mail functions to use SES for my own purposes.

But maybe it would be a better idea to have something in the admin configuration page that allows users to select SMTP, SES, and a few other email services (like the ones that you listed) and then configure them on the page. I'm pretty new to PHP but I am going to play around with this and see if I can get it to work.

[lilfade]

check this out

http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/

also found this on stack overflow may help out

// Pear Mail Library
require_once "Mail.php";

$from = '<from.gmail.com>';
$to = '<to.yahoo.com>';
$subject = 'Hi!';
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$headers = array(
    'From' => $from,
    'To' => $to,
    'Subject' => $subject
);

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array(
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'port' => '465',
        'auth' => true,
        'username' => 'johndoe@gmail.com',
        'password' => 'passwordxxx'
    ));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
    echo('<p>' . $mail->getMessage() . '</p>');
} else {
    echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p>');
}

[alexweissman]

Cool. I should point out that a lot of email servers don't allow aliasing the from address. So, if you have it authenticate using your gmail account, it will show the email as coming from your gmail address.

[lilfade]

Yea i just came across that stuff on the internet last night, for me that wouldn't be so bad I use the Google business thing to use drive Gmail ect on my domain but for others I'm sure they could change it to their servers and domains ect.

[alexweissman]

Makes sense. Is there a way to implement this without PEAR? Some web hosts might not have PEAR installed.

[sotiris84]

You should consider swift-mailer (http://swiftmailer.org/). Its incredibly easy to set up and use. You just copy-paste the files in your hosting account and start sending emails. I use it for the contact form I have in my website. If you want I can help setting it up with some starter code...

[lilfade]

You can make a commit on some code if you'd like and make a pull request.

[alexweissman]

We will be using PHPMailer in 0.3.0. However this still doesn't address the need for a third-party mailing service, maybe someone can write a plugin for this?

[alexweissman]

Ok, I've made SMTP a configuration option in v0.3.1. So, you should now be able to configure UF to send emails through any SMTP server you have access to.