Mailing from Joomla

Mailing from Joomla using SendMail and some PHP.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// PUBLIC VARIABLES
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low).
* @var int
*/
var $Priority = 3;
/**
* Sets the CharSet of the message.
* @var string
*/
var $CharSet = "iso-8859-1";
/**
* Sets the Content-type of the message.
* @var string
*/
var $ContentType = "text/plain";
/**
* Sets the Encoding of the message. Options for this are "8bit",
* "7bit", "binary", "base64", and "quoted-printable".
* @var string
*/
var $Encoding = "8bit";
/**
* Holds the most recent mailer error message.
* @var string
*/
var $ErrorInfo = "";
/**
* Sets the From email address for the message.
* @var string
*/
var $From = "youremail@yourdomain.net";
/**
* Sets the From name of the message.
* @var string
*/
var $FromName = "Your Email Name";
/**
* Sets the Sender email (Return-Path) of the message. If not empty,
* will be sent via -f to sendmail or as 'MAIL FROM' in smtp mode.
* @var string
*/
var $Sender = "youremail@yourdomain.net";
/**
* Sets the Subject of the message.
* @var string
*/
var $Subject = "";
/**
* Sets the Body of the message. This can be either an HTML or text body.
* If HTML then run IsHTML(true).
* @var string
*/
var $Body = "";
/**
* Sets the text-only body of the message. This automatically sets the
* email to multipart/alternative. This body can be read by mail
* clients that do not have HTML email capability such as mutt. Clients
* that can read HTML will view the normal Body.
* @var string
*/
var $AltBody = "";
/**
* Sets word wrapping on the body of the message to a given number of
* characters.
* @var int
*/
var $WordWrap = 0;
/**
* Method to send mail: ("mail", "sendmail", or "smtp").
* @var string
*/
var $Mailer = "mail";
/**
* Sets the path of the sendmail program.
* @var string
*/
var $Sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
/**
* Path to PHPMailer plugins. This is now only useful if the SMTP class
* is in a different directory than the PHP include path.
* @var string
*/
var $PluginDir = "";
/**
* Holds PHPMailer version.
* @var string
*/
var $Version = "1.73";
/**
* Sets the email address that a reading confirmation will be sent.
* @var string
*/
var $ConfirmReadingTo = "";
/**
* Sets the hostname to use in Message-Id and Received headers
* and as default HELO string. If empty, the value returned
* by SERVER_NAME is used or 'localhost.localdomain'.
* @var string
*/
var $Hostname = "mail.yourdomain.net";
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// SMTP VARIABLES
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* Sets the SMTP hosts. All hosts must be separated by a
* semicolon. You can also specify a different port
* for each host by using this format: [hostname:port]
* (e.g. "smtp1.example.com:25;smtp2.example.com").
* Hosts will be tried in order.
* @var string
*/
var $Host = "mail.yourdomain.net";
/**
* Sets the default SMTP server port.
* @var int
*/
var $Port = 25;
/**
* Sets the SMTP HELO of the message (Default is $Hostname).
* @var string
*/
var $Helo = "";
/**
* Sets SMTP authentication. Utilizes the Username and Password variables.
* @var bool
*/
var $SMTPAuth = true;
/**
* Sets SMTP username.
* @var string
*/
var $Username = "youremail@yourdomain.net";
/**
* Sets SMTP password.
* @var string
*/
var $Password = "yourpassword";

from http://forums.crystaltech.com/index.php?topic=31885.0, viewed 19-Apr-2015. (Now offline)