Testing external SMTP server with PHP

email_test.php

<?php
# use composer : php composer.phar require swiftmailer/swiftmailer @stable
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
// Approach 1: Change the global setting (suggested)
Swift_Preferences::getInstance()->setCharset('utf-8');
$smtp_host = '1.2.3.4';

// Create the Transport
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance($smtp_host, 25);
// Create the Mailer using your created Transport
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$logger = new Swift_Plugins_Loggers_EchoLogger();
$mailer->registerPlugin(new Swift_Plugins_LoggerPlugin($logger));

// Pass it as a parameter when you create the message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Subject here', 'My amazing body');
$message->setFrom(array('[email protected]' => 'No reply'));
$message->setTo(array('[email protected]' => 'Christian'));
// Or set it after like this
$message->setBody('My <em>amazing</em> body', 'text/html');

// Send the message
if (!$mailer->send($message, $failures))
{
  echo "Failures:";
  print_r($failures);
} else {
  echo "Sent";
}