Core Settings - SMTP setup

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I use the gmail SMTP server, but am not able to enter all the required info in the core settings mask and as a consequence mail confirmations fail. The following info is required:

Host = “ssl://smtp.gmail.com”; // specify main server
Port = 465; // set the port to use
SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
Username = "[email protected]"; // your SMTP username or your gmail username
Password = “tr55@we4”; // your SMTP password or your gmail password

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

2

Hi,

you can’t use an SMTP which is not located on the server where your shop is installed.
Means - gmail won’t work as you can’t use it as an email relay with or w/o all requested data.

Regards

3

Hi Marco and thanks for your quick reply. I implement the following code in other projects I have written to send out email via gmail also using phpmailer. Works without problems both on localhost and live server:

<?php
$first_name=$_POST[‘first_name’];
$last_name=$_POST[‘last_name’];
$email=$_POST[‘email’];
$emailto=$_POST[‘emailto’];
$subject=$_POST[‘subject’];
$message=$_POST[‘message’];
include"class.smtp.php"; // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
include"class.phpmailer.php"; // include “PHPMailer_v2.0.0/class.phpmailer.php”;
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = “ssl://smtp.gmail.com”; // specify main server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the port to use
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "[email protected]"; // your SMTP username or your gmail username
$mail->Password = “9?4DFgcml”; // your SMTP password or your gmail password
$from = “$email”; // Reply to this email
$to="$emailto"; // Recipients email ID
//$name="$first_name $last_name"; // Recipient’s name
//$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $email; // Name to indicate where the email came from when the recepient received
$mail->AddAddress($to);
//$mail->AddReplyTo($from);
$mail->WordWrap = 25; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = “$subject”;
$mail->Body = “$message”; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = “$message”; //Text Body
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo “Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo “Message has been sent”;
echo’<br/>’;
echo " by:$first_name $last_name”;
echo’<br/>’;
echo " to:$emailto";
echo’<br/>’;
echo " Subject:$subject";
echo’<br/>’;
echo " Message:$message";
echo’<hr>’;
}
?>

Gmail requires PORT=465 and also SMTPAuth = true, however these parameters are not accounted for in the core settings mask. Is it possible to hard code these values within your code?

Regards,

Tim

4

Hi,

just wondering that it should be possible with gmail…
Yep - you may want to try to write a module. Think /core/oxemail.php shall be the right place.

Regards

5

If you do not need encrypted transfer, i think it should work with just “smtp.gmail.com”. This is on standard port, SMTPAuth is switched on per default by OXID.
But i think google will rewrite the sender name to your gmail address.

6

Hi again,

somebody told me that an entry like this ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 shall work perfectly. No module, no code needed.

Regards