OsCommerce supports the use of SMTP to send email, but does not allow specification of a username and password for outgoing authentication, which is required when sending mail from our servers.
If you are on a server that does not allow the PHP mail() function or you just wish to use SMTP to send mail, this guide will walk you through how to set up SMTP with your shopping cart.
It is best to use an email address that you created in your cPanel on our server for the SMTP setup, but you can use your outgoing email settings for most other mail providers to send emails.
First thing to do is log in to the administrative panel, then go to Configuration ~> Email options and choose “SMTP” as the Transport Method.
Also verify these other settings:
Email Line Feels: LF
Use MIME EMail when sending email: YES
Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS : FALSE
Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails: FALSE
Also check the the General Store configuration to see that the Email Address and Email From fields are the same as the outgoing email address you’ll be using for the setup.
You’ll need to install a 3rd party script called phpMailer. As with any other time, please make a backup copy of any files you are changing in case something goes wrong!
To install phpMailer:
1. Download a copy of phpMailer
- There are two files, class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php. Open the FTP site to the OScommerce installation, then upload them both into these folders:
…/includes/classes/
- There are two files in OsCommerce that you need to edit:
…/includes/classes/email.php
…/admin/includes/classes/email.php
In the email.php file, locate this section: (line 519)
return mail($to_addr, $subject, $this->output, ‘From: ‘ . $from . $this->lf . ‘To: ‘ . $to . $this-> lf . implode($this->lf, $$
}
return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, ‘From: ‘.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this$
}
}
You’ll need to comment out some of these lines, so they look like this:
// return mail($to_addr, $subject, $this->output, ‘From: ‘ . $from . $this->lf . ‘To: ‘ . $to . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $$
// } else {
// return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, ‘From: ‘.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this$
// }
// }
Then copy and paste this code directly below those lines. Be sure to change the Host, Username, and Password fields to match the outgoing mail server. When sending from our systems, please just use ‘localhost‘ as the host, and your entire email address as the username.
$pMail = new PHPMailer();
$pMail->From = $from_addr;
$pMail->FromName = $from_name;
$pMail->IsSMTP();
$pMail->Host = “mail.example.com”; // replace with your smtp server
$pMail->Username = “[email protected]“; // replace with your smtp username (if SMTPAuth is true)
$pMail->Password = “password”; // replace with your smtp password (if SMTPAuth is true)
$pMail->SMTPAuth = true; // true/false – turn on/off smtp authentication
$pMail->Subject = $subject;
$pMail->Body = $this->output;
$pMail->AddAddress($to_addr, $to_name);
$pMail->IsHTML(false);
return $pMail->Send();
$pMail->ClearAddresses();
$pMail->ClearAttachments();
}
}
This needs to be done for both email.php files in order to get the user-side and backend emailing to work. There is a sample email.php available here:
Can we update this article please? Doing this now breaks the admin backend and there is not a classes folder in the public side. The only directory that exists is the admin/includes/classes, there is not a …/includes/classes folder.
Thank you for reaching out. We will take this into consideration when planning out future updates.
Hey thanks for the prompt reply, but I am currently working on it locally. I have tried setting permissions and everything. But nothing seems to work. So there may be no way you could test it.
Thanks,
David
Have you set your local environment to be able to function as a mail server? This is often a problem with testing locally vs on a hosting server.
Hi guys,
I have tried to do this but I am getting an error at the registration of a customer. The error is Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::IsSMTP()
require_once(DIR_WS_CLASSES . “class.phpmailer.php”);
$pmail = new PHPMailer();
Can anybody help me with this?
I would be really grateful.
Thanks and Regards,
David
We are happy to help, but will need some additional information. Can you provide a link to the form for us to test?
Thank you,
John-Paul
I added a BCC to the mail logic and it works now alltough admin gets the same mail twice now…
Hello!
I applied the SMTP tweak. Works fine!
Except one thing: the admin normally got an copy of any order confirmation but not anymore.
I edited only the email.php class file and uploaded the main smtp class files from the “package”.
any idea?
Thank you.
This would be hard to diagnose without seeing what you’ve changed. Sorry, wish we could be more help.
Hi There,
I configured smtp with phpmailer and also it works but in some case(not regularaly) it giving following error.
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
Please help me.
Thanks!!!
Hello Ranjit,
I found a forum thread from OS Commerce’s website of someone who had a fairly similar issue. Please check it out as it should be able to help your situation.
Best Regards,
TJ Edens
YES, PLEASE FIX YOUR POST! I only saw the comment correction above after installing & getting a errror due to the extraneous right angle bracket!!
Hello Zdub,
It’s been fixed! If you have any further questions or comments, please let us know.
Regards,
Arnel C.
In the second line of the Paste in code there is a mistake.
$pMail = new PHPMailer(); >$pMail->From = $from_addr;
should be changed to
$pMail = new PHPMailer();
$pMail->From = $from_addr;