PHPMailer How to send mails to anyone ?

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PHPMailer How to send mails to anyone ?

sreyan32

Hello,
I am a beginner to PHP and Web 2.0 development in general. I am making a project in which where once a user sign's up he/she will get a confirmation email in his/her inbox and must confirm the mail id by clicking on a link. Pretty standard stuff. Now I am using the latest version of PHPMailer to do this. I am connected to the gmail smtp, and the settings are as follows-:

$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                                           // 1 = errors and messages
                                           // 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 587;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "foobar@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "foobar";            // GMAIL password

Now when I am sending mails to a person who has a Gmail account it is working fine. But the moment I am sending any mail to someone with a Yahoo account, the mail doesn't seem to reach the client. Do I have to reconfigure PHPMailer again to say the yahoo SMTP service. Can I send mails to yahoo through the GMail SMTP ??? Or do i have to reconfigure again each time I have to send mail to a different service provider ?? Thank You.

NogDog

Have you checked the spam folder on the target Yahoo email account? (And yes, the SMTP server should be able to send the email anywhere on the net.)

sreyan32

NogDog;1264371 wrote:
Have you checked the spam folder on the target Yahoo email account? (And yes, the SMTP server should be able to send the email anywhere on the net.)

Yup Checked the spam folder. No mail has reached.

sreyan32

My entire PHPMailer mail setup is as follows-:

<?php
require_once('mailer/class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = "<html><head></head><body>
<strong>This is a System generated message. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MAIL.</strong>
<br />
Click on the following ling to activate your account-:
<br />
<a href='http://www.google.co.in'>Click Here !! </a>
<br />
END OF MESSAGE.
</body></html>";
//$body             = preg_replace("[\]i",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                                           // 1 = errors and messages
                                           // 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 587;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "foobar@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "foobar";            // GMAIL password

$mail->SetFrom("iembcarocks@gmail.com", "India Indigenous");

$mail->AddReplyTo("iembcarocks@gmail.com", "India Indigenous");

$mail->Subject    = "India Indigenous Account Activation";

$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$address = "alexde989@yahoo.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address);

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}


?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>domail</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

The above configuration works fine for Gmail mails but I can't send mails to Yahoo. Do I have to change the "$mail->Host " parameter to the Yahoo SMTP ?? It is set to Gmail SMTP.