phpMailer is a very powerful PHP email-sending class that can set the sender address, reply-to address, email subject, HTML web pages, upload attachments, and is very easy to use.

Features of phpMailer:

  • 1. Supports multiple TO, CC, BCC, and REPLY-TO in emails.
  • 2. Widely used across platforms; supported SMTP servers include Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Gmail, Imail, Exchange, etc.
  • 3. Supports embedded images, attachments, and HTML emails.
  • 4. Reliable and powerful debugging features.
  • 5. Supports SMTP authentication.
  • 6. Custom email headers.
  • 7. Supports 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding.

phpmailer installation or download methods:

1. Download from GitHub:https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/

2. Install using Composer:

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Before sending, you need to have your own mail server. For testing, it is actually most convenient to use a free email account you have applied for, as you don't need to set up your own server. You may need to configure the SMTP service of the email account; most public mailboxes (163, QQ, etc.) have it disabled by default for security.

NetEase mailbox configuration is as shown below:

QQ mailbox related configuration is as shown below:

Email POP3 server (port 995) SMTP server (port 465 or 587)
qq.com pop.qq.com smtp.qq.com

Of course, other email services besides NetEase and QQ are also possible. The PHP code example is given below:

Example

<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require './src/Exception.php';
require './src/PHPMailer.php';
require './src/SMTP.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);                              // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
    // Server configuration
    $mail->CharSet ="UTF-8";                     // Set email encoding
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;                        // Debug mode output
    $mail->isSMTP();                             // Use SMTP
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.163.com';                // SMTP server
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                      // Allow SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username = 'Email username';                // SMTP username, i.e., the email username
    $mail->Password = 'Password or authorization code';             // SMTP password - some mailboxes use an authorization code (e.g., 163 mailbox)
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';                    // Allow TLS or SSL protocol
    $mail->Port = 465;                            // Server port 25 or 465, depending on the mail server support

    $mail->setFrom('xxxx@163.com', 'Mailer');  // Sender
    $mail->addAddress('aaaa@126.com', 'Joe');  // Recipient
//$mail->addAddress('ellen@example.com'); // Multiple recipients can be added
    $mail->addReplyTo('xxxx@163.com', 'info'); // Which email to reply to; it is recommended to be the same as the sender
//$mail->addCC('cc@example.com'); // CC
//$mail->addBCC('bcc@example.com'); // BCC

// Send attachment
// $mail->addAttachment('../xy.zip'); // Add attachment
// $mail->addAttachment('../thumb-1.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Send attachment and rename

    //Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Whether to send in HTML document format; after sending, the client can directly display the corresponding HTML content
    $mail->Subject = 'Here is the email subject'. time();
    $mail->Body    = '<h1>Here is the email content</h1>'. date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    $mail->AltBody = 'If the email client does not support HTML, this content is displayed';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Email sent successfully';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Email sending failed: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

The interface after sending an email with attachments is as follows:

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