sending email to my gmail account by php wamp server

Question

please if someone knows how can i send a message (by a submited form ) to my gmail account .. i'm using wamp server .... example : Name : joe sleiman email: example@gmail.com message: please i need your help!!! submit button

thanks your message has been send to us .. we will reply as soon as possible

and i want this message to receive to my personal email

Answer 1 · 2016-04-26T16:16:43Z

April 26, 2016 4:16pm

Not sure if you resolved this, but I had the same problem using LAMP. I figured out that gmail doesn't allow you to login into unsecure apps that aren't their's you have to go to sign-in & security on your gmail account, and at the bottom there is an option to turn Allow Less Secure Apps: OFF on. You will have to change this option to on. However it is not recommended by gmail. But what I do is turn it on for testing purposes and then turn it back off when I have done testing. Hope this helps

Answer 2 · 2016-02-10T22:30:14Z

February 10, 2016 10:30pm

First, head over to GitHub and download the PHPMailer. Then, you would do something where an HTML form is submitted with email address and a message to you - then you would make a PHP page which is activated by the submission however you would like (if(isset($_POST['submit'])) or simply a new page directed from the form and include something along these lines:

<?php
//Send the email
      require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

      $mail = new PHPMailer;

      //$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

      $mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP

      $mail->SMTPOptions = array(
      'ssl' => array(
          'verify_peer' => false,
          'verify_peer_name' => false,
          'allow_self_signed' => true
      )
  );

      $mail->Host = "YOUR_HOST";  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
      $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
      $mail->Username = "YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS";                 // SMTP username
      $mail->Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";                           // SMTP password
      $mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
      $mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

      $mail->From = "YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS";
      $mail->FromName = "YOUR_NAME";
      $mail->addAddress("THEIR_EMAIL_ADDRESS", "THEIR_NAME");     // Add a recipient
      $mail->addAddress("YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS", "YOUR_NAME");     // Add a recipient

      $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

      $mail->Subject = 'Thank you for your submission!';
      $mail->Body    = "Your email body.";
      $mail->AltBody = 'Anything you\'d like the mail body to have in it.';

      if(!$mail->send()) {
          echo 'There was an error sending the contact form email. <br>';
          echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
      } 

?>

Answer 3 · 2016-02-11T11:01:40Z

February 11, 2016 11:01am

believe me i did all of that and nothing match.... maybe the problem i didn't know actually how i use the username and pass on smtp website ...please can you reach me or lead me

Answer 4 · 2016-02-11T15:11:51Z

February 11, 2016 3:11pm

assume my gmail account is joe@gmail.com and my pass is 123456 can you resend for me the code and where should i put the required fields.... i concluded that i don't want to access the site of smpt and sign up anything ..right??? best regards

Answer 5 · 2016-02-11T15:56:45Z

February 11, 2016 3:56pm

Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: Could not instantiate mail function.

Answer 6 · 2016-02-11T16:00:58Z

February 11, 2016 4:00pm

$mail->addAddress("THEIR_EMAIL_ADDRESS", "THEIR_NAME"); // Add a recipient THEIR_EMAIL_ADDRESS : i put $email : the email that a user fill it on the form THEIR_NAME : i put $name the name that the user fill it on the form

Answer 7 · 2016-02-11T21:30:08Z

February 11, 2016 9:30pm

Perhaps change the addAddress syntax to simply ($email) instead of ($email, $name) --- sometimes that works for whatever reason.

Other than that, I'd check to make sure your include file is in the right place for your mailer autoload?

Answer 8 · 2018-07-08T15:31:27Z

July 8, 2018 3:31pm

The solution:

Go to https://myaccount.google.com/ and log in to your account.
Click "Sign-in & security.
Scroll down to "Allow less secure apps: OFF" and turn it to "ON".

This is my set up:

//Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require 'vendor/PHPmailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'vendor/PHPmailer/src/SMTP.php';
require 'vendor/PHPmailer/src/Exception.php';

if(!PHPMailer::validateAddress($email)){
    echo "Invalid Email Address";
    exit;
}

$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = "your email address";
$mail->Password = "your password";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;

$mail->setFrom('your email address', $name);
$mail->addReplyTo($email, $name);
$mail->addAddress('your email address', 'your name');
$mail->Subject = 'Library suggestion from ' . $name;
$mail->Body = $email_body;
if (!$mail->send()) {
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    exit;
} 
header("location:suggest.php?status=thanks");

Answer 9 · 2016-02-11T15:36:04Z

February 11, 2016 3:36pm

//Send the email
      require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

      $mail = new PHPMailer;

      //$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

      $mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP

      $mail->SMTPOptions = array(
      'ssl' => array(
          'verify_peer' => false,
          'verify_peer_name' => false,
          'allow_self_signed' => true
      )
  );

      $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
      $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
      $mail->Username = "joe@gmail.com";                 // SMTP username
      $mail->Password = "123456";                           // SMTP password
      $mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
      $mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

      $mail->From = "joe@gmail.com";
      $mail->FromName = "Joe";
      $mail->addAddress("THEIR_EMAIL_ADDRESS", "THEIR_NAME");     // Add a recipient
      $mail->addAddress("joe@gmail.com", "Joe");     // Add a recipient

      $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

      $mail->Subject = 'Thank you for your submission!';
      $mail->Body    = "Your email body.";
      $mail->AltBody = 'Anything you\'d like the mail body to have in it.';

      if(!$mail->send()) {
          echo 'There was an error sending the contact form email. <br>';
          echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
      }

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