Send Email in PHP with Japanese subject and body

   Before, we get started, you must have an SMTP server that can receive the emails from your machines 

   and send them to the recipient

    (i.e. your corporate exchange or Gmail).

 

    How to Setup Email on Linux Using Gmail and SMTP

• Install ssmtp 
  
  

  sudo apt-get install ssmtp

  
  Edit ssmtp file
  
  sudo vim /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

• root=username@gmail.com

  mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465

  rewriteDomain=gmail.com
  AuthUser=username@gmail.com
  AuthPass=password
  FromLineOverride=YES
  UseTLS=YES

In order to make the default (root) “from” field be the server name, edit the/etc/ssmtp/revaliases file:

sudo vim /etc/ssmtp/revaliases

And add into it the desired translation which in our Gmail examples case will be:

root:username@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:465

Incredibly this is all you have to do to enable the ability. From now on, the machine will Email you when something is up.

Test Email Command

Lets test that our ssmtp setup was correct by sending an Email:


echo "Test message from Linux server using ssmtp" | sudo ssmtp -vvv your-email@some-domain.com

 

 

Use the following codes to send email with PHP

 

 

    //  $to  : receiver email address
    //  $subject :  Japanese subject
    //  $message : Japanese body
    function sendEmail($to, $subject, $message)
    {
        if(!isset($to) || !isset($subject) || !isset($message)) {
            return;
        }
   
         // Set up environment
        mb_language('Japanese');
        mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
   
　　　     // Set up subject
        $headers ='From: '.mb_encode_mimeheader("ありがとうございます").' <test@123.jp>' . "\r\n";
                'Reply-To: test@123.jp' . "\r\n" .
                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
   
          // Set up body
        $message = mb_convert_encoding($message, "JIS", "UTF-8");
       
         //  Send email  
        if(mb_send_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
        {
                error_log("#### Send mail OK ####");
   
        }else {
                 error_log("#### Send mail Error ####");
      }
       
    } // End Send Email