PHP Custom SMTP Mail function Return ERROR fputs send bytes failed errno=32 Broken pipe

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I wrote the next custom PHP function to send mail trough a SMTP MAIL SERVER. ``` function send($format = 'text'){ $smtpServer = 'mail.mymailserver.com.mx'; $port = '25'; $timeout = '60'; $username = 'myuser'; $password = 'mypassword'; $localhost = 'www.mydomain.com.mx'; $newLine = "
"; $smtpConnect = fsockopen( $smtpServer, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout ); fputs( $smtpConnect,'AUTH LOGIN'.$newLine ); fputs( $smtpConnect, base64_encode( $username ) . $newLine ); fputs( $smtpConnect, base64_encode( $password ) . $newLine ); fputs( $smtpConnect, 'HELO ' . $localhost . $newLine ); fputs( $smtpConnect, 'MAIL FROM: ' . $this->from . $newLine ); fputs( $smtpConnect, 'RCPT TO: ' . $this->to . $newLine ); if( !empty( $this->cc ) ){ fputs( $smtpConnect, 'RCPT TO: ' . $this->cc . $newLine ); } if( !empty( $this->bcc ) ){ fputs( $smtpConnect, 'RCPT TO: ' . $this->bcc . $newLine ); } fputs( $smtpConnect, 'DATA' . $newLine ); fflush( $smtpConnect ); $raw = ""; $raw = @fread( $smtpConnect, 255…

Accepted Answer

I had the same problem and found the solution by setting the protocol to 'mail' (of course this is not the case that always you need to use "mail" as protocol, I used "smtp" as protocol in another website, and was working fine, but the same code I copied and pasted for some other website and did not work, so I had to change it to 'mail'). My sample configuration looks like this(replace uppercase words with your own credentials):

```
'protocol' => 'mail',            
'smtp_host' => 'mail.YOUR_WEBSITE_DOMAIN.com.au',            
'smtp_port' => 25,            
'smtp_user' => 'YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNT@YOUR_WEBSITE_DOMAIN.com.au',            
'smtp_pass' => 'YOUR_PASSWORD_FOR_YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNT',            
'smtp_timeout' => 5,// The default value            
'mailtype' => 'html' //default: text        
```

PHP Custom SMTP Mail function Return ERROR fputs send bytes failed errno=32 Broken pipe

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