How to send email using Magento

Question

I have created a form with some input fields in Magento. But when I click submit, Magento will not send the email.

How can I send a basic email in Magento?

Answer 1

simple function to send the email in magento

<?php
    public function sendMailAction() 
    {
        $html="
        put your html content here
        blah blah

        ";
        $mail = Mage::getModel('core/email');
        $mail->setToName('Your Name');
        $mail->setToEmail('Youe Email');
        $mail->setBody('Mail Text / Mail Content');
        $mail->setSubject('Mail Subject');
        $mail->setFromEmail('Sender Mail Id');
        $mail->setFromName("Msg to Show on Subject");
        $mail->setType('html');// You can use Html or text as Mail format
        $mail->setBodyHTML($html);  // your content or message

        try {
            $mail->send();
            Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess('Your request has been sent');
            $this->_redirect('');
        }
        catch (Exception $e) {
            Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError('Unable to send.');
            $this->_redirect('');
        }
    }
?>

Reference

Answer 2

Create New Template Form "Transactional Emails".

hello {{var customerName}},
  You received test template. 
Thank you

After create New Template Note Its ID

Create controller action

public function sendEnquiry()
{
$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();

$templateId = 8; // Enter you new template ID
$senderName = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/name');  //Get Sender Name from Store Email Addresses
$senderEmail = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/email');  //Get Sender Email Id from Store Email Addresses
$sender = array('name' => $senderName,
            'email' => $senderEmail);

// Set recepient information
$recepientEmail = $customer->getEmail();
$recepientName = $customer->getName();      

// Get Store ID     
$store = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();

// Set variables that can be used in email template
$vars = array('customerName' => $customer->getName());  


// Send Transactional Email
Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
    ->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $recepientEmail, $recepientName, $vars, $storeId);

Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess($this->__('We Will Contact You Very Soon.'));
}

Now You can send simple mail using Admin "Transactional Emails".

Following Your your_form.phtml

<form action="<?php echo $this->getUrl("your_module_name/index/sendEnquiry")?>" id="discuss" method="post">

//Your form 

</form>

Answer 3

Try this code and adjust it accordingly

$email_template  = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
    ->loadDefault($template_id);

/* load template by id */
$email_template_variables = array(
    'customer_name' => $customer_name);

$sender_email = '[email protected]';
$sender_name =  'Your Friend at The Company';                          
$email_template->setSenderName($sender_name);
$email_template->setSenderEmail($sender_email); 

$email_template->send(
    $email_to, $customer_name,$email_template_variables
);

Answer 4

For UTF-8 mail:

$mail = new Zend_Mail('utf-8');
$mail->setFrom($senderEmail, $senderName);
$mail->addTo($toEmail, $toName);
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setBodyHTML($html); // Or plain: $mail->setBodyText($text)
$mail->send();

Answer 5

Basic (should work in a separate php script). It worked without exceptions, but I did not receive mail. So I spent more time on setting the SMTP.

// do not forget to include Mage.php before that
Mage::app();
// send email
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email')
 ->setToEmail('<my email>')
 ->setBody('Body')
 ->setSubject('Subject:'.date("Y-m-d H:i:s"))
 ->setFromEmail('<from email>')
 ->setFromName('Magento Store Admin')
 ->setType('html');

$mail->send(); 

Prerequisites:

1. The Magento mail settings set to localhost (System -> Configuration -> System -> Mail Sending Settings)

2. Make sure that your SMTP working (on localhost you can check, you might need to install telnet "yum install telnet" on CentOS)

   telnet localhost 25
   MAIL FROM: <put from mail>
   RCPT TO: <put to mail>
   data: 
   Subject: <put your subject>
   <Put body here>
   . 
   QUIT
   

3. If it's not working configure SMTP. There was postfix running on my CentOS

    ps aux | grep posfix
   

I edited the settings with vi:

     vi /etc/postfix/main.cf

setting just myhostname worked for me

4. Try php mail function:

   // The message
   $message = "Line 1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine 3";
   // Send
   $headers = 'From: <from mail>' . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: <from mail>' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
   mail('<to mail>', 'My Subject', $message, $headers);    
   echo "<p>php mail sent 3</p>";
   

5. For postfix you can view the mail queue typing "mailq"