: How can i send email in php through google apps My client is using godaddy to host a php site, and has recently signed up for google apps account for email, hoping it will help stop his

@BetL925

MX Record will not automatically send email from your server. You need to make some CODE change. Check this answer if you want to do it with PHPMailer.

$mail = new PHPMailer;
// Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
// Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
// Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
// Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// use
// $mail->Host = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');
// if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
// Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
// Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
// Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
// Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "username@gmail.com";
// Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";


However, that solution has some problems of its own. The best way is to properly setup your mail server using DKIM and other settings, so that your emails don't go to spam.

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@Pierce454

In the code somewhere, you can set many variables that PHPmailer is going to use. This includes explicitly naming the mail server.

Your code may include something like

$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = "yourname@example.com";
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";


There is a tutorial at github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Tutorial and examples at github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/master/examples

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