matejsmisek / php-mailserver-autodiscovery

Discover mail server settings from e-mail address for IMAP/ POP3 / SMTP

PHP Mail server autodiscovery

Translates provided email address into full IMAP/POP3/SMTP server configuration to be used by PHP

Library Features

• First it tries Mozzila ISPDB for any records from email domain
• Compatible with Thunderbird autoconfiguration XML
• Compatible with Outlook autodiscovery XML
• Tries to resolve MX and SRV DNS records for more accurate finds
• Optionally can perform test connection and login to found configurations

Limitations

• Gmail accounts cannot be validated via tester and will usually report warning email to user

Why you might need it

If you are building PHP application which integrates user mailbox. Users usually don't know their email server settings and popular e-mail clients (Thunderbird, Outlook) already fills this information for them

Installation & loading

Library is available on Packagist, and installation via Composer is the recommended way to install Mail server autodiscovery. Just add this line to your composer.json file:

"phpmailer/mailserver-autodiscovery": "~1.1"

or run

composer require balgor/mailserver-autodiscovery

Planned Features

• Validation of CRAM-MD5 password logins
• Autoconfiguration if no service was found by try connecting to Guessed service and reading server capabilities
• Easily fetch fully form string from server to use with php_imap library
• Convert SMTP server configuration for Swift_Mailer library usage