send email using gmail-api and google-api-php-client

Question

I am using https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client and I want to send a test email with a user\'s authorized gmail account.

This is what I have so far:

Answer 1

I've used this solution as well, worked fine with a few tweaks:

When creating the PHPMailer object, the default encoding is set to '8bit'. So I had to overrule that with:

$mail->Encoding = 'base64';

The other thing i had to do was tweaking the MIME a little to make it POST ready for the Google API, I've used the solution by ewein:

Invalid value for ByteString error when calling gmail send API with base64 encoded < or >

Anyway, this is how I've solved your problem:

//prepare the mail with PHPMailer
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail->Encoding = "base64";

//supply with your header info, body etc...
$mail->Subject = "You've got mail!";
...

//create the MIME Message
$mail->preSend();
$mime = $mail->getSentMIMEMessage();
$mime = rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($mime), '+/', '-_'), '=');

//create the Gmail Message
$message = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$message->setRaw($mime);
$message = $service->users_messages->send('me',$message);