Setting Up Apache HTTPD PHP Webserver with hMailServer

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...

PHP cannot perform SMTP authentication natively using the mail() function. The way I set up my development server is to allow unauthenticated SMTP emails to be sent from the PHP webhost IP address on a non-standard port
 
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Creating a Webhost SMTP Account
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   01. Open the Start Menu ≫ hMailServer ≫ hMailServer Administrator
   02. Select localhost ≫ Click Connect
   03. Login with the password set during the installation
   04. Expand Settings ≫ Advanced ≫ IP Ranges
   05. Click the Add... button
   06. Enter PHP Webserver as the Name, set I priority above 50 and enter the PHP Webserver IP in the Lower and Upper IP address fields
   07. Uncheck POP3 and IMAP from the Allow connections options
   08. Uncheck Require SSL/TLS for authentication
   09. Uncheck all boxes under Require SMTP authentication
   10. Click the Save button
   11. Expand Settings ≫ Advanced ≫ TCP/IP Ports
   12. Click the Add... button
   13. Select SMTP from the Protocol dropdown
   14. Enter a non-standard SMTP port (8025) for PHP to communicate on
   15. Set Connection security to None
   16. Click the Save button
   17. Click Yes to restart the hMailServer service
 
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Configuring PHP SMTP Server
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   01. Navigate to the PHP installation directory and open php.ini in a text editor
   02. Search for SMTP
   03. Update the following parameters
    SMTP = smtp.i12bretro.local
    smtp_port = 8025
    Optionally, set the mail.log to a file path for logging or syslog to log to the event viewer     
      - NOTE: If using SSL the certificate authority needs to be trusted by PHP. This can be setup by adding the CA and intermediate CA certs to a .pem file and setting the curl.cainfo value in php.ini     
   05. Select File ≫ Save
   06. Restart the Apache or IIS service
 
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Testing PHP Mail() Call
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   01. Open a text editor
   02. Create a PHP file with the following code
≪?php $to = '[email protected]'; $subject = 'HTML E-Mail from PHP'; $body = '≪html≫≪head≫≪title≫HTML E-Mail≪/title≫≪/head≫≪body≫≪h3≫Check out my other tutorials at ≪a href="   / @i12bretro  "≫https://youtube.com/channel/UCNmLR_9E... $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'; $headers[] = 'From: PHP Webserver ≪[email protected]≫'; mail($to, $subject, $body, implode("\r\n", $headers)); ?≫
 


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