PHPMailer with Gmail (can I send emails from name@mypersonaldomain.com?) [closed]

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I have a Gmail account. I.e., myemail@gmail.com.

I have associated my website email to it. I.e., contact@mydomain.com

Is it possible to use PHPMailer to send email via Gmail (for reliability, less likely to get flagged as spam, etc.), but have "contact@mydomain.com" as my sent email?

I'm using the code found here:

Send email using Gmail and PHPMailer

So far I've been getting an error:

SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

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Go to Accounts and Import in Gmail, Send mail as and verify contact@mydomain.com, and then give it a try. First make sure you script is working the "regular way".

You can also buy Gmail for Business (for your domain) and the problem is solved.

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The example there does not seem to be using SSL which is required.

$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";

Make sure you have OpenSSL extension turned on in file php.ini.

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I'd recommend setting up a free Google Apps account for mydomain.com and using an email account there to send your email.

You could set up contact@mydomain.com as an account through Google Apps, and then use this as the sender for your email -- the settings for PHPMailer should be the same as for gmail except you would use contact@mydomain.com as your username for authentication (and whatever password you set up, obviously).

If you want to forward email sent to contact@mydomain.com to your Gmail account, you can do this just as you would for a Gmail account.