PHPMailer
The classic email sending library for PHP (by PHPMailer)
Symfony Mailer
Helps sending emails (by symfony)
PHPMailer | Symfony Mailer | |
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63 | 5 | |
21,575 | 1,565 | |
0.4% | 0.6% | |
8.4 | 7.4 | |
23 days ago | 3 days ago | |
PHP | PHP | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PHPMailer
Posts with mentions or reviews of PHPMailer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-01.
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CVE-2016-10033: PHPMailer Command Injection Vulnerability
This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.18 ; https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5f37-gxvh-23v6 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10033
- Enable OAuth2 (XOAUTH2) for Sending Emails Using Gmail Account in OJS 3
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Deliver Emails Safely with PHP: A Guide to Using SMTP for Spam-Free Emails
If you donβt have Composer, you can download PHPMailer manually from GitHub and include it in your project.
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Easy PHPMailer Tutorial: Build an Email System in No Time [2024] βπ
Step 1: Download and Install PHPMailer Download the PHPMailer library from here and extract it to your project directory.
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What to use besides contact form?
Then make a form and use PHPMailer.
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Open Source Projects You Can Lay Your Hand On
PHPMailer, as the name suggests, is an email-sending tool for PHP. It offers a straightforward and reliable approach to sending email messages from PHP applications. Security remains a top priority for the PHPMailer creators. It is equipped with built-in support for SSL/TLS encryption, ensuring the protection of email messages against interception and tampering. Moreover, it implements safeguards against common email injection attacks, effectively countering header injection and body injection vulnerabilities.
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Help submitting simple contact form with php
Have you tried using PHPMailer? mail() really isn't great and ends up being a lot more difficult to use. Phpmailer uses (or can use) SMTP (like Outlook or whichever email app) and is better at HTML and attachments and all that.
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Sending Text Messages
I found I have good experiences with a real email address provided by my domain/web host, and then I use the PHPMailer Class to send the message with the appropriate headers and what not.
- Trying to build a contact form with php/html/js
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New to php but want to be able to send emails from php server to users for an application for free.
The easiest way to send e-mails (from a beginner POV) is PHPMailer connected to an existing and configured SMTP server. Does your school has one? If yes, you're all set.
Symfony Mailer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Symfony Mailer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
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Pulling my hair out on PHPMAIL...
But if you don't mind using composer, the symfony/mailer library is really easy to use and reduces headaches when it comes to sending e-mail. Can be used easily outside of symfony too and I use it for scripts like your own regularly.
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New to php but want to be able to send emails from php server to users for an application for free.
Most hosting providers also provide SMTP that you can use, if you have one. Or, there are plenty of online services with a free tier that you can use. Stuff like Sendgrid, Mailchimp, Postmark and SparkPost just to name a few (those services usually provide a SDK to integrate, or can be used with something like symfony-mailer).
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How to debug mail()? It only returns 1, 0, or null. I'm not sure if gmail is blocking it either.
That is utterly simple, and can be readily converted for usage with cURL through PHP without loading any external libraries. No symfony/mailer. No PHPMailer/PHPMailer. Nothing.
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PHP Libraries for sending and parsing email
Symfony Mailer - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.
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Yii Mailer Symfony Mailer Extension 1.0.0
It is relying on symfony/mailer to send emails and is recommended as replacement for now deprecated SwiftMailer.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PHPMailer and Symfony Mailer you can also consider the following projects:
SwiftMailer - Comprehensive mailing tools for PHP
PHP IMAP - Manage mailboxes, filter/get/delete emails in PHP (supports IMAP/POP3/NNTP)
Mautic - Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
php-imap2 - PHP IMAP with OAUTH2
omnimail - Send email across all platforms using one interface