phpmailerHow can I use PHPMailer with MailHog?

PHPMailer is an open source library for sending emails from PHP. It can be used with MailHog, a testing mail server for developers, by making a few simple configuration changes.

To use PHPMailer with MailHog, you need to set the SMTP host to localhost and the port to 1025. You can also set the SMTPSecure option to tls to enable encryption.

Below is an example of how to use PHPMailer with MailHog:

require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->Port = 1025;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';

$mail->From = '[email protected]';
$mail->FromName = 'Example Sender';
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Example Recipient');

$mail->Subject = 'Test Email';
$mail->Body = 'This is a test email sent using PHPMailer with MailHog';

if(!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message has been sent';
}

Output example

Message has been sent

The above code does the following:

1. Includes the PHPMailer library
2. Sets the SMTP host to localhost and the port to 1025
3. Sets the SMTPSecure option to tls
4. Sets the sender and recipient addresses
5. Sets the subject and body of the email
6. Sends the email
7. Outputs the result

Helpful links

• PHPMailer
• MailHog

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