Send mail using Mail.php / PEAR

To send mail using Mail.php, PEAR and a .user.ini, defining the path to PEAR, need to be uploaded to the site. Package and setup instructions are below.

Download PEAR.zip

elPEAR.zip

Inside the .zip is the PEAR directory, a .user.ini, a test script named zsend.php and a script to show the server path to /PEAR named zpath.php. The PEAR directory also contains a web.config to prevent browser access to the subdirectory.

To use Mail.php, upload the /PEAR directory and the .user.ini to the document root of the site ( /site/wwwroot/ ). If you have an existing .user.ini, update it with the include_path to /PEAR.

Testing Mail.php

zsend.php may be used to test whether Mail.php has been properly set up. Open the file in a text editor and update the settings highlighted in red below.

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "[email protected]";
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Mail.php test email";
$body = "Test email sent using Mail.php.";
$host = "sm##.internetmailserver.net";
$username = "[email protected]";
$password = "password";
$headers = array ('Date' => date('r'),
  'From' => $from,
  'To' => $to,
  'Subject' => $subject,
  'Message-ID' => '<' . time() . md5($from . $to) . '@domain.com>');
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  array ('localhost' => $host,
  'host' => $host,
  'auth' => true,
  'username' => $username,
  'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
echo "Mail.php test"
?>

Once updated, save the changes and upload the script to the site. View the page in a browser and you should see "Mail.php test" returned. If the email is not received, the path to PEAR in the user.ini and/or the zsend.php settings should be reviewed. For the former, see the next section.

To prevent abuse, zsend.php should be deleted from the site after testing.

Article ID: 1516, Created: 6/21/2018 at 10:46 AM, Modified: 10/1/2025 at 3:38 PM

Send mail using Mail.php / PEAR

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