How can I send and receive emails from Joomla?

Question

How can I send and receive emails from Joomla?

Answer 1

Need to be more specific than that.

1. if you want to send emails to users registered on your website, you need to use somekind of newsletter component - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-sharing/newsletter
2. If you want to sent email programmatically, easiest way is to use
   JUtility::sendMail($from, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $body, $mode, $cc, $bcc, $attachment, $replyto, $replytoname);

3. if you need it to be more advanced get mailer and configure on your own

   $mailer =& JFactory::getMailer();
   $mailer->IsHTML(false);
   $mailer->setSubject("Hello World");
   $mailer->setBody("Hello from Joomla");
   $mailer->addRecipient('[email protected]');
   $mailer->AddCustomHeader('X-Header: example');
   $mailer->Send();
   

4. If you want your users to email each other, you might want to use PMS (Private Messages System) http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communication/pms. I would recomment UddeIM, great messaging system.