Sending mail

Sending e-mail through sendmail is usually a pretty standard way of working, as it is probably one of the most used ways of transporting e-mail (or proxying the e-mail to an SMTP server) on a Linux-based system. On most Linux servers sendmail is already installed and therefore it's very easy to start sending e-mail with that.

That is why we will be discussing this method of sending e-mail first, so that we can start off easy.

How to do it…

In this recipe we will discuss the method of sending mail from within our application.

Transport\Sendmail

Let's take a look at the following example of sending an e-mail through sendmail, and although this functionality is placed in a controller, in real life this needs to stay far away from that and be placed safely away in a model:

<?php

namespace Application\Controller;

// We need the following libraries at a minimum to 
// send an e-mail.
use Zend\Mail\Message;
use Zend\Mail\Transport\Sendmail;
use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController...