Let’s configure Gmail or Amazon SES with Magento2 or Magento 1 or any other php application, basically will configure our server in a way so any php application will then use local php mail but email will route with any SMTP provider.
Step 1
apt-get install msmtp -y
apt-get install libxml-xpath-perl -y
nano ~/.msmtprc
Now will edit or add .msmtprc file
account gmail tls on tls_certcheck off auth on host smtp.gmail.com port 587 user [email protected] from [email protected] password Yourpasswordhere
Let’s change permission and give proper ownership and copy the file to appropriate location
chmod 600 ~/.msmtprc cp -p ~/.msmtprc /etc/.msmtp_php chown www-data:www-data /etc/.msmtp_php
Now will edit php.ini file so we can tell sendmail to use our Gmail SMTP
I am using PHP 7 so my location is different then your’s probably, if you are using Ubuntu or any flavor you can simply use
locate php.ini
nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini nano /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
Now will edit sendmail in php.ini
sendmail_path = "/usr/bin/msmtp -C /etc/.msmtp_php --logfile /var/log/msmtp.log -a gmail -t"
Lastly will make sure to have our log file
touch /var/log/msmtp.log chown www-data:www-data /var/log/msmtp.log
Now goto your Magento2 admin or Magento admin or any PHP Application to try to sendmail email it will use Gmail or Amazon SES to send emails out, you just need to modify your msmtp file