Simple SMTP Mailer

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This is a simple tutorial on how to send a plain text message via email.

Firstly the Mailer Class
This goes in /cake/app/controllers/components/mailer.php

Model Class:


<?php 

class MailerComponent extends Object

{



var $to              = array();

var $from            = 'info@strutstuff.co.za';

var $fromname        = 'Strutstuff.co.za';

var $Subject         = null;

var $Message         = null;



function socketmail() {



        //ini_set("smtp_port", "25");  // Optional

       //ini_set("SMTP", "smtp.yoursite.com"); // Optional



        ini_set("sendmail_from", $this->from);



        $connect = fsockopen(ini_get("SMTP"), ini_get("smtp_port"), $errno, $errstr, 30) or die("Could not talk to the sendmail server!");



        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);



      fputs($connect, "HELO {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n");

      

        $rcv .= fgets($connect, 1024);



  while (list($toKey, $toValue) = each($this->to)) {



      fputs($connect, "MAIL FROM:$this->from\r\n");



        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);



      fputs($connect, "RCPT TO:$toValue\r\n");

        $rcv .= fgets($connect, 1024);



      fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n");

        $rcv .= fgets($connect, 1024);



          

   fputs($connect, "Subject: $this->Subject\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "From: $this->fromname <$this->from>\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "To: $toKey  <".$toValue.">\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "X-Sender: <$this->from>\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "Return-Path: <$this->from>\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "Errors-To: <$this->from>\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "X-Priority: 3\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");

   fputs($connect, "\r\n");

   fputs($connect, stripslashes($this->Message)." \r\n");

   fputs($connect, ".\r\n");



     $rcv .= fgets($connect, 1024);



   fputs($connect, "RSET\r\n");

     $rcv .= fgets($connect, 1024);





  }



   fputs ($connect, "QUIT\r\n");

     $rcv .= fgets ($connect, 1024);



   fclose($connect);

   ini_restore("sendmail_from");



    }



function AddAddress($name = "",$address ) {



        $cur = count($this->to);

        $this->to["$name"] = trim($address);



    }



}

?>

Then all you need to do is set these in your controller:

Model Class:


<?php 

var $components = array ('Mailer'); // 'Mailer','comp2'  if Multiple



// Set up mail

    $this->Mailer->Subject = "Nice Subject";

    $this->Mailer->Message = "That was easy";

    $this->Mailer->AddAddress("yourname","youremail");

    $this->Mailer->socketmail();



?>

Let me know what you think.

Comments

ahmetkemal

Posted 12/25/09 06:19:37 AM
Thanks for tutorial. I just downloaded the Cake 1.2.5 but there is nothing in /cake/app/controllers/components/mailer.php

What is the problem?

Thank you...

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Enchy

Posted 04/23/09 07:41:12 AM
You can debug it by echoing this:
$rcv .= fgets ($connect, 1024);
echo $rcv;
See what it says.

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one4allnet

Posted 03/14/09 05:30:28 AM
I have purchase a pre made site and it sends user registrations, password reminders and news items to it's useres but it will not send the information via smtp. Here is the array - why isn't working or is a server specific issue? I am on a linux machine.

),

'Email' => array(
'delivery' => 'smtp',
'sendAs' => 'html',
'host' => 'mail.whatever.com',
'port' => 25,
'timeout' => 60,
'username' => 'admin@whatever.com',
'password' => 'mypassword'
),

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acl68

Posted 05/15/08 02:40:06 AM
After 7 hours of fruitless tries with other tutorials and with the build-in email component, this ist the first code which sent an email for me.

Thank you!

Anja

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hanibaal

Posted 03/26/08 01:47:15 AM
thanks for the component it definily save me time..

for those who might need authentication simply after this line of code
fputs($connect, "HELO {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n"); add the following:
// authentication fputs($connect, "auth login\r\n"); $rcv .=fgets($connect,256); fputs($connect, base64_encode("smtp_user@mail.server.com")."\r\n"); $rcv .=fgets($connect,256); fputs($connect, base64_encode("password")."\r\n"); $rcv .=fgets($connect,256); of course change the smtp_user@mail.server.com and password to an authenticated user required by your server...

you can be better then me by placing them as variables on top of your class.

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lupo7

Posted 07/22/07 05:15:20 AM
Tnx just what I need it!

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Contrid

Posted 06/23/07 05:04:46 PM
Thanks for a great tutorial.
I'll definitely be trying this out today.

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dionak

Posted 04/10/07 02:02:07 PM
That was real easy! Thanks! No problems here. 1.5 minute setup.

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