php mail function use what and what server to send mail?

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I tried and follow a tutorial and I made a mail form. I wonder how the mail will look like, who is the sender? I never can try to send one because I'm on localhost..

can I use my gmail as sender? means can I create a form that use gmail acc to send email without need to go to gmail?

duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/712392/send-email-using-gmail-smtp-server-from-php-page — Ian Kenney, Jul 25 '13 at 09:34
this thread could be useful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5294751/using-gmails-outgoing-smtp-from-php-using-tls — forvaidya, Jul 25 '13 at 09:34
You can send the mail even if you are on localhost... Unless you don't have internet connection of course. — Andrius Naruševičius, Jul 25 '13 at 09:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 09:35

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You can use the PHP IMAP functionality or phpmailer with SMTP functionality to basically send from any Mail-Account:

http://php.net/manual/de/book.imap.php

https://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer

answered Jul 25 '13 at 09:35

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 09:38

you can send mail using PHP as plain text, or you can send a HTML email, allowing you to format the text, borders, background etc.

You really need to use a live server in order to use the mail() function, and you don't have to have a gmail account to send it. If you want it to appear to have come from you, simply use your email address in the "from" paramenter.

qsi · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-25T16:16:12.243

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basically you can use any email address you like, even non-existing addresses, because this is just what is shown to the recipient, the background email address is always an address from the server (hoster) you send the email from.

$text = "<html><head><title>your title</title></head>
         <body>

   <!-- html here -->

         </body>
         </html>";
$recipient = "$email"; //Mailadresse
$sender = "[email protected]"; 
$subject = "Anything you like";
$answer = "[email protected]"; 
$hea  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$hea .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$hea .= "From: $sender\r\n";
$hea .= "Reply-To: $answer\r\n";
mail($recipient,$subject,$text,$hea);

edited Jul 25 '13 at 16:16

answered Jul 25 '13 at 09:39

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what is the $hea? header? – Elle Lessing Jul 25 '13 at 12:16
exactly, $hea = $headers – qsi Jul 25 '13 at 16:15

php mail function use what and what server to send mail?

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