Email object

Hi,

Is there any way for Universal Email (DataBridge) to use Hotmail/Gmail etc. smtp mail to send emails?
How should i do it as this would be the only way for me to send out emails locally.

Any step by step instruction would be helpfull.
Thanks.

i dont know about hotmail, but I have been able to use Gmail.

first, you will need to make sure that Pear Mail is installed in your testing server:
pear.php.net/


once you have Pear installed, in Universal Email select the Pear Mail using SMTP as the Email object.

for the SMTP Server, enter:
ssl://smtp.gmail.com

Port:
465

Username:
enter your gmail email address

Password:
enter your Gmail password

also, make sure that the from address is your gmail email address.

Dear Jason,

I got it to work as you mentioned, thanks!!

However the mail is send i still get below error message when testing the doubleOpt tutorial.

Strict standards: Non-static method Mail::factory() should not be called statically in C:\wamp\www\blueSky\webassist\email\PEAR_Mail_using_SMTP_php.php on line 190

Any idea why and how to solve?
Thanks.

this seams to be a bug that was reported on the Pear site with the Mail object on PHP 5 and having the strict error reporting level enabled

bug.php?id=9950

bug.php?id=18254


the email still sends though right?

to suppress the error till the Pear team can correct the problem, change line 190 of the PEAR_Mail_using_SMTP_php.php file:

$theMailer =& Mail::factory('smtp', $paramArray);

to:

@$theMailer =& Mail::factory('smtp', $paramArray);

Thanks Jason, that worked!