How to Install and Uninstall libphp-phpmailer Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "libphp-phpmailer" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libphp-phpmailer
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libphp-phpmailer" package

Learn how to uninstall libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libphp-phpmailer package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libphp-phpmailer
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 622
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 5.2.14+dfsg-1build1
Depends: php-common
Suggests: mail-transport-agent, php-league-oauth2-client, php-league-oauth2-google
Filename: pool/universe/libp/libphp-phpmailer/libphp-phpmailer_5.2.14+dfsg-1build1_all.deb
Size: 135070
MD5sum: d568774b348900228d47410abcda1ab9
SHA1: ee88c499847c3a59f73f95748412d578e7abf8fa
SHA256: 66af2ba4941f7a9d54a2c7d0a1085c0e37adc88a253654b6fdc6ebbefcab0d12
Description-en: full featured email transfer class for PHP
Many PHP developers utilize email in their code. The only PHP function
that supports this is the mail() function. However, it does not provide
any assistance for making use of popular features such as HTML-based
emails and attachments.
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Class Features:
- Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server
- Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
- Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read
HTML email
- Support for UTF-8 content and 8bit, base64, binary, and
quoted-printable encodings
- SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 mechanisms
over SSL and TLS transports
- Error messages in 47 languages
- DKIM and S/MIME signing support
Description-md5: 18eaabdfa1cab6ca0bca6b9f5d84461c
Homepage: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu