When you need it, create your POP3 object
Right before I invoke PHP Mailer I activate the POP3 authorisation. POP3 before SMTP is a process whereby you login to your web hosts POP3 mail server BEFORE sending out any emails via SMTP. The POP3 logon 'verifies' your ability to send email by SMTP, which typically otherwise blocks you. On my web host (Pair Networks) a single POP3 logon is enough to 'verify' you for 90 minutes. Here is some sample PHP code that activates the POP3 logon and then sends an email via PHP Mailer:
-[geshi lang=php] Authorise('pop3.example.com', 110, 30, 'mailer', 'password', 1); $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->SMTPDebug = 2; $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->IsHTML(false); $mail->Host = 'relay.example.com'; $mail->From = 'mailer@example.com'; $mail->FromName = 'Example Mailer'; $mail->Subject = 'My subject'; $mail->Body = 'Hello world'; $mail->AddAddress('rich@corephp.co.uk', 'Richard Davey'); if (!$mail->Send()) { echo $mail->ErrorInfo; } ?> [/geshi]
+[geshi lang=php] Authorise('pop3.example.com', 110, 30, 'mailer', 'password', 1); $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->SMTPDebug = 2; $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->IsHTML(FALSE); $mail->Host = 'relay.example.com'; $mail->From = 'mailer@example.com'; $mail->FromName = 'Example Mailer'; $mail->Subject = 'My subject'; $mail->Body = 'Hello world'; $mail->AddAddress('rich@corephp.co.uk', 'Richard Davey'); if (!$mail->Send()) { echo $mail->ErrorInfo; } ?> [/geshi]
The PHP Mailer parts of this code should be obvious to anyone who has used PHP Mailer before. One thing to note - you almost certainly will not need to use SMTP Authentication *and* POP3 before SMTP together. The Authorisation method is a proxy method to all of the others within that class. There are Connect, Logon and Disconnect methods available, but I wrapped them in the single Authorisation one to make things easier.
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