How do I set up Pear mail?

Question

I'm trying to set up php mail with pear. I've been trying and researching for the past 4 hours without success.

I'm using this code

<?php
 require_once "Mail.php";

 $from = "Sandra Sender <sender@example.com>";
 $to = "Ramona Recipient <recipient@example.com>";
 $subject = "Hi!";
 $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

 $host = "ssl://mail.example.com";
 $port = "465";
 $username = "smtp_username";
 $password = "smtp_password";

 $headers = array ('From' => $from,
   'To' => $to,
   'Subject' => $subject);
 $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
   array ('host' => $host,
     'port' => $port,
     'auth' => true,
     'username' => $username,
     'password' => $password));

 $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

 if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
   echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  } else {
   echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
  }
 ?>

And the 'require_once "Mail.php"' is giving this error:

Warning: require_once(Mail.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/creatif2/public_html/mail.php on line 3 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Mail.php' (include_path='.:php/') in /home/creatif2/public_html/mail.php on line 3

Pear and Pear Mail is installed

Auth_SASL 1.0.6 Update Reinstall Uninstall Show Docs Mail 1.2.0 Update Reinstall Uninstall Show Docs Net_SMTP 1.6.1 Update Reinstall Uninstall Show Docs Net_Socket 1.0.10 Update Reinstall Uninstall Show Docs

And I'm quite baffled about it. I think my problem is setting the include path but I'm not getting anywhere with it.

The packages are located within the php folder - (eg home/my_user/php/Mail.php, I'm using Justhost).

The current configuration is .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php

Can someone please explain to me how to reference the Mail.php file properly? Been stuck here the whole morning and afternoon.

Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem when trying to send email. You have to install the Pear Mail package with all the dependencies, I couldnt install until reinstall reinstalled the the PEAR Package Manager see http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php I'm sure this will help

Answer 2

Your problem is that you are not using the correct path in the include. Assuming your include path starts in the document root, you should use:

require_once "/home/my_user/php/Mail.php";

Although it might take you some testing to find the correct path for the require