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SMTP is rfc 821 compliant and implements all the rfc 821 SMTP commands except TURN which will always return a not implemented error.

SMTP also provides some utility methods for sending mail to an SMTP server.

package PHPMailer
author Chris Ryan

 Methods

Performs SMTP authentication.

Authenticate($username, $password) : bool

Must be run after running the Hello() method. Returns true if successfully authenticated.

access public

Parameters

$username

$password

Returns

bool

Closes the socket and cleans up the state of the class.

Close() : void

It is not considered good to use this function without first trying to use QUIT.

access public

Connect to the server specified on the port specified.

Connect($host, $port, $tval) : bool

If the port is not specified use the default SMTP_PORT. If tval is specified then a connection will try and be established with the server for that number of seconds. If tval is not specified the default is 30 seconds to try on the connection.

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 220 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 421

access public

Parameters

$host

$port

$tval

Returns

bool

Returns true if connected to a server otherwise false

Connected() : bool
access private

Returns

bool

Issues a data command and sends the msg_data to the server finializing the mail transaction.

Data($msg_data) : bool

$msg_data is the message that is to be send with the headers. Each header needs to be on a single line followed by a with the message headers and the message body being seperated by and additional .

Implements rfc 821: DATA

SMTP CODE INTERMEDIATE: 354 [data] . SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 552,554,451,452 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 451,554 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,503,421

access public

Parameters

$msg_data

Returns

bool

Expand takes the name and asks the server to list all the people who are members of the _list_.

Expand($name) : string

Expand will return back and array of the result or false if an error occurs. Each value in the array returned has the format of: [ ] The definition of is defined in rfc 821

Implements rfc 821: EXPN

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 550 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,502,504,421

access public

Parameters

$name

Returns

stringarray

Sends the HELO command to the smtp server.

Hello($host) : bool

This makes sure that we and the server are in the same known state.

Implements from rfc 821: HELO

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500, 501, 504, 421

access public

Parameters

$host

Returns

bool

Gets help information on the keyword specified.

Help($keyword) : string

If the keyword is not specified then returns generic help, ussually contianing A list of keywords that help is available on. This function returns the results back to the user. It is up to the user to handle the returned data. If an error occurs then false is returned with $this->error set appropiately.

Implements rfc 821: HELP [ ]

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 211,214 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,502,504,421

access public

Parameters

$keyword

Returns

string

Starts a mail transaction from the email address specified in $from.

Mail($from) : bool

Returns true if successful or false otherwise. If True the mail transaction is started and then one or more Recipient commands may be called followed by a Data command.

Implements rfc 821: MAIL FROM:

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 552,451,452 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 500,501,421

access public

Parameters

$from

Returns

bool

Sends the command NOOP to the SMTP server.

Noop() : bool

Implements from rfc 821: NOOP

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500, 421

access public

Returns

bool

Sends the quit command to the server and then closes the socket if there is no error or the $close_on_error argument is true.

Quit($close_on_error) : bool

Implements from rfc 821: QUIT

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 221 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500

access public

Parameters

$close_on_error

Returns

bool

Sends the command RCPT to the SMTP server with the TO: argument of $to.

Recipient($to) : bool

Returns true if the recipient was accepted false if it was rejected.

Implements from rfc 821: RCPT TO:

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250,251 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 550,551,552,553,450,451,452 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,503,421

access public

Parameters

$to

Returns

bool

Sends the RSET command to abort and transaction that is currently in progress.

Reset() : bool

Returns true if successful false otherwise.

Implements rfc 821: RSET

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,504,421

access public

Returns

bool

Initialize the class so that the data is in a known state.

SMTP() : void
access public

Starts a mail transaction from the email address specified in $from.

Send($from) : bool

Returns true if successful or false otherwise. If True the mail transaction is started and then one or more Recipient commands may be called followed by a Data command. This command will send the message to the users terminal if they are logged in.

Implements rfc 821: SEND FROM:

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 552,451,452 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 500,501,502,421

access public

Parameters

$from

Returns

bool

Starts a mail transaction from the email address specified in $from.

SendAndMail($from) : bool

Returns true if successful or false otherwise. If True the mail transaction is started and then one or more Recipient commands may be called followed by a Data command. This command will send the message to the users terminal if they are logged in and send them an email.

Implements rfc 821: SAML FROM:

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 552,451,452 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 500,501,502,421

access public

Parameters

$from

Returns

bool

Sends a HELO/EHLO command.

SendHello($hello, $host) : bool
access private

Parameters

$hello

$host

Returns

bool

Starts a mail transaction from the email address specified in $from.

SendOrMail($from) : bool

Returns true if successful or false otherwise. If True the mail transaction is started and then one or more Recipient commands may be called followed by a Data command. This command will send the message to the users terminal if they are logged in or mail it to them if they are not.

Implements rfc 821: SOML FROM:

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 552,451,452 SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 500,501,502,421

access public

Parameters

$from

Returns

bool

This is an optional command for SMTP that this class does not support.

Turn() : bool

This method is here to make the RFC821 Definition complete for this class and may be implimented in the future

Implements from rfc 821: TURN

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 502 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500, 503

access public

Returns

bool

Verifies that the name is recognized by the server.

Verify($name) : int

Returns false if the name could not be verified otherwise the response from the server is returned.

Implements rfc 821: VRFY

SMTP CODE SUCCESS: 250,251 SMTP CODE FAILURE: 550,551,553 SMTP CODE ERROR : 500,501,502,421

access public

Parameters

$name

Returns

int

Read in as many lines as possible either before eof or socket timeout occurs on the operation.

get_lines() : string

With SMTP we can tell if we have more lines to read if the 4th character is '-' symbol. If it is a space then we don't need to read anything else.

access private

Returns

string

 Properties

 

$CRLF 

@var string

 

$SMTP_PORT 

@var int

 

$do_debug 

@var bool

 

$error 
 

$helo_rply 
 

$smtp_conn