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Sending mail with PHP, PEAR & Godaddy

Sending mail with PHP, PEAR & Godaddy

I created a very small php file to send email messages which would get called from my app. Everything worked just fine testing locally, then I deployed it to my godaddy account and it wouldn’t work. If you try to goggle specific topics for info on getting something like PEAR PHP mail to work on godaddy you’ll find it hard to come by. Hence this post.

The forum help from godaddy is OK, but more often than not they tell you why you’re having issues. So you still have to figure out how to fix it (which is good in some ways as well – don’t learn unless you figure it out yourself sometimes).

So this is the code that will work when you test locally and as it comes from my machine the mail request gets seen as a client connection (same as say outlook etc) and not as a web server. This is why you need to change the code when you deploy to a web server.

";
$to = "Mrs Jones ";
$subject = "What's up";
$body = "Hi,nnHow are you? What is happening";
 
 $host = "smtpout.secureserver.net";
 $username = "[email protected]";
 $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("

" . $mail->getMessage() . "

"); } else { echo("

Message successfully sent!

"); } ?>

So here is the code that will work when you deploy it to your server on godaddy, this may well be the same as other server providers.

";
$to = "Mrs Jones ";
$subject = "What's up";
$body = "Hi,nnHow are you? What is happening";

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

 $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp' );

 $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
 
 if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
   echo("

" . $mail->getMessage() . "

"); } else { echo("

Message successfully sent!

"); } ?>

So as you can see I’ve totally removed the host, username, password. This will work providing you have the following lines inside you php.ini or php5.ini file.


SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
smtp_port = 25

If you do try and use the first piece of code on the webserver it will warn you about being unable to connect. for example,
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to {some ip address} (Connection refused) in /usr/local/lib/php/Net/Socket.php on line 108
unable to connect to smtp server.

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