SwiftMailer
Comprehensive mailing tools for PHP (by swiftmailer)
PHPMailer
The classic email sending library for PHP (by PHPMailer)
| SwiftMailer | PHPMailer | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 63 | |
| 9,490 | 21,575 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 5.6 | 8.4 | |
| over 3 years ago | 27 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only |
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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.
SwiftMailer
Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftMailer.
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and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning SwiftMailer yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
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 don’t 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] ✉🚀
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SwiftMailer and PHPMailer you can also consider the following projects:
omnimail - Send email across all platforms using one interface
Mautic - Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Bounce Mail Handler - Bounce Mail Handler for PHP | This is a "reboot" of PHPMailer-BMH from WorxWare.
Symfony Mailer - Helps sending emails