smtp configuration for php mail

Question

I am sending mails from my website by using php mail function. But now it is not working and I contacted our hosting team then they told me to use smtp as they did some changes in server. I don't know how to do it. Current code(with php mail function) is as follows, can anyone help me about the changes wchich I have to do with this.

<?php
$mail_To="[email protected]";
$headers = "";
$headers .= "From: [email protected]\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: php";
$mail_Subject = " Live TV key";
$mail_Body = "<p>Muscle-tube</p>";
mail($mail_To, $mail_Subject, $mail_Body,$headers);

?>

Answer 1

PHP's mail() function does not have support for SMTP. You're going to need to use something like the PEAR Mail package.

Here is a sample SMTP mail script:

<?php
require_once("Mail.php");

$from = "Your Name <[email protected]>";
$to = "Their Name <[email protected]>";
$subject = "Subject";
$body = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...";

$host = "mailserver.blahblah.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";

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

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host,
                                     'auth' => true,
                                     'username' => $username,
                                     'password' => $password));

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

if ( PEAR::isError($mail) ) {
    echo("<p>Error sending mail:<br/>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
    echo("<p>Message sent.</p>");
}
?>

Answer 2

But now it is not working and I contacted our hosting team then they told me to use smtp

Newsflash - it was using SMTP before. They've not provided you with the information you need to solve the problem - or you've not relayed it accurately here.

Its possible that they've disabled the local MTA on the webserver, in which case you'll need to connect the SMTP port on a remote machine. There are lots of toolkits which will do the heavy lifting for you. Personally I like phpmailer because it adds other functionality.

Certainly if they've taken away a facility which was there before and your paying for a service then your provider should be giving you better support than that (there are also lots of programs to drop in in place of a full MTA which would do the job).

C.