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You can write an example of the modified file qa-external/qa-external-emailer.php?
To send mail through Gmail. Sendmail on hosting does not work.

P.S. I do not know PHP


(Вы можете написать пример изменённого файла qa-external/qa-external-emailer.php?
Что бы отправлять почту через Gmail. Sendmail на хостинге не работает.
P.С. Я не знаю PHP )
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Same here. Sendmail on hosting does not work.

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The Q2A install of PHPMailer seems to lack the necessary SMTP class (class.smtp.php) for sending via SMTP.

So, first fetch a version of PHPmailer 2 which provides it. I downloaded version 2.0.4 from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/ 

Unzip that, get the file, and put it  in /qa-external/.

Then copy in the example emailer, call it qa-external-emailer.php

You will need the qa_send_email() function to look something like this:



function qa_send_email($params)
{
  require_once QA_INCLUDE_DIR.'qa-class.phpmailer.php';
  require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/class.smtp.php';
 
  $mailer=new PHPMailer();
  $mailer->CharSet='utf-8';
  $mailer->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
  $mailer->SMTPAuth = true;
  $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
  $mailer->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465";
  $mailer->Username = "<your gmail email address here>";
  $mailer->Password = "<your gmail password here >";
 
 
  $mailer->From=$params['fromemail'];
  $mailer->Sender=$params['fromemail'];
  $mailer->FromName=$params['fromname'];
  $mailer->AddAddress($params['toemail'], $params['toname']);
  $mailer->Subject=$params['subject'];
  $mailer->Body=$params['body'];
 
  if ($params['html'])
    $mailer->IsHTML(true);
 
  return $mailer->Send();
}
 
Put in your whole gmail email address and password above, and remember to set QA_EXTERNAL_EMAILER to true in qa-config.php.
 
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i followed this but it still didn't work...
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What sort of hosting provider are you using? Some hosting providers will not allow you the outgoing connection to talk to gmail.
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I'm using bluehost. sendfeedback form works well except notification and pm.
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Where can I find this example emailer?
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