Quickest Way to Send Mails in Php Without Any External Libraries

2024-08-12

If you are looking for sending simple, quick, functional emails with your PHP code, nothing is better than using the built-in mail() function.

This is a no-nonsense stuff. Blazing fast too.

function sendEmail($email) {
	$to = $email;
	 $subject = "Test Email";
	 $message='
	    <html>
	    <body>
	      <p>This is a test HTML email.</p>
	    </body>
	    </html>     
	     ';

	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
	 
	$retval = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
	 
	if( $retval == true ) {
	    error_log('mail sent');
	    error_log($to);
	} else {
	    error_log(error_get_last()['message']);
	    error_log('mail NOT sent');
	}
}

If you are getting no errors but your emails are not delivering, you would want to do the following: 1. Look for DKIM & SPF status of the sender email address domain under “Email Deliverability” in cPanel. 2. and for Delivery status/logs under “Track Delivery” in cPanel.

Note: If you looking for some fancy sunch as Attchments, SMTP and stuff and don’t mind external libraries then

you many want to read my this post: How to use PHPMailer Library for Sending Attachments With Emails.