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How to send an e-mail using php - PHPMailer Part 2

 If you have gone through part 1 and done everything step by step then you are now ready to continue. 

We had already created an instance as shown below 👇


After instantiation, now you are ready to create a mail inside your code. Copy the code below:


Let us now go through it step by step.
$mail->isSMTP();                            is to allow you send the mail using SMTP.
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;   this is to enable SMTP authentication.
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'   enable encryption, there are at least two types 
of encryption used by PHPMailer, PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS
and TLS encryption.
$mail->Port       = 587;  TCP port to connect to, that is if you have used TLS 
encryption, if you have opted for`PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` 
then use port 465
$mail->isHTML(true);    Sets an email format to HTML
$mail->Username   = 'vik03@username.ac.ke'; SMTP username, hosts email address
$mail->Password   = 'secret';  SMTP password, pass of hosts email.

That was the server setting, now let us move to part 3 and tackle the Recipients section 
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