Install PHP Pear Mail / SMTP package on CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux

by nixCraft on October 20, 2007 · 6 comments· Last updated October 20, 2007

Recently I've noticed that Redhat removed support for following php pear packages:

a) NET/SMTP : An implementation of the SMTP protocol

b) Mail : Class that provides multiple interfaces for sending emails

c) Net/Socke : Network Socket Interface

The simplest solution is downloading and installs these files from php pear repo.

Step # 1: Download files

Use wget command to download all files:
# cd /tmp # wget http://download.pear.php.net/package/Mail-1.1.14.tgz # wget http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP-1.2.10.tgz # http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket-1.0.8.tgz
Untar all files:
# tar -zxvf Mail-1.1.14.tgz # tar -zxvf Net_SMTP-1.2.10.tgz # tar -zxvf Net_Socket-1.0.8.tgz

Step # 2: Install files

Simply copy file to your webroot such as /www/usr/share/pear or standard location such as /usr/share/pear:
# cd /usr/share/pear # mkdir Net # cd Net # cp /tmp/Net_SMTP-1.2.10/SMTP.php . # cp /tmp/Net_Socket-1.0.8/Socket.php . # cd .. # cp -avr /tmp/Mail-1.1.14/Mail/ . # cp -avr /tmp/Mail-1.1.14/Mail.php .

Step # 3: Test SMTP email

Now you have required files, all you have to do is send email using authenticated smtp server.

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1 anil February 19, 2009 at 5:13 am: Dear
One querry ! How to find the pear path on a rhel4 server. I got 10 servers already installed with pear. but every system have a diff pear path as mentioned in document. So how can i find the pear path if i don’t have the documentation with me.
Thanks
anil
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2 Roberto May 26, 2009 at 6:23 pm: Hi
I installed RedHat 5.3 and I found the same problem with others packages. To solve it I installed php-pear and from command line I installed additional packages, for example:
# pear install Mail
# pear install DB
I did it with other packages and worked very well.
Thanks
Roberto
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3 Unihost Brasil - Servidores de hospedagem November 9, 2010 at 9:03 am: To install PEAR MAIL package you can use:
/usr/local/bin/pear install Mail
/usr/local/bin/pear install Net_SMTP
/usr/local/bin/pear install Net_Socket
Alex M. – Tech. Support
Unihost Brasil
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4 Riaz September 12, 2011 at 10:13 am: Hello,
How can one setup smtp? I tried all that but it is not helping me.
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5 Kapil June 20, 2012 at 8:51 am: Thanks
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6 Sikkandar November 22, 2012 at 5:12 am: This guide helps a lot. Thanks for that. Please correct the type at step 1.
Change
# http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket-1.0.8.tgz
To
#wget http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket-1.0.8.tgz
Regards,
Sikkandar.
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