Sending SMTP e-mail with curl/php

curl-smtp.php

<?php
function read_cb($ch, $fp, $length) {
    return fread($fp, $length);
}

$fp = fopen('php://memory', 'r+');
$string = "From: <no-reply@example.com>\r\n";
$string .= "To: <hdogan@example.com>\r\n";
$string .= "Date: " . date('r') . "\r\n";
$string .= "Subject: Test\r\n";
$string .= "\r\n";
$string .= "Deneme mesaji\r\n";
$string .= "\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $string);
rewind($fp);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'smtps://smtp.example.com:465/example.com',
    CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM => '<no-reply@example.com>',
    CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT => ['<hdogan@example.com>'],
    CURLOPT_USERNAME => 'username',
    CURLOPT_PASSWORD => 'password',
    CURLOPT_USE_SSL => CURLUSESSL_ALL,
    CURLOPT_READFUNCTION => 'read_cb',
    CURLOPT_INFILE => $fp,
    CURLOPT_UPLOAD => true,
    CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true,
]);

$x = curl_exec($ch);

if ($x === false) {
    echo curl_errno($ch) . ' = ' . curl_strerror(curl_errno($ch)) . PHP_EOL;
}

curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

Hello, it was written when PHP version 8 was not exist. Some parts may need to be updated.

For the SSL problem, it may be related to SSL/TLS version. (CURLOPT_SSLVERSION option).

Have you tried with using "smtp://" instead of "smtps://" schema? (start with plain text connection and upgrade to TLS - with CURLOPT_USE_SSL set to CURLUSESSL_ALL)