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balgor/mailserver-autodiscovery
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Discover imap, pop3 and smtp servers from email address

1.1.2(7y ago)61327[1 issues](https://github.com/matejsmisek/php-mailserver-autodiscovery/issues)GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=7.1.3

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PHP Mail server autodiscovery
=============================

[](#php-mail-server-autodiscovery)

Translates provided email address into full IMAP/POP3/SMTP server configuration to be used by PHP

Library Features
----------------

[](#library-features)

- First it tries Mozzila ISPDB for any records from email domain
- Compatible with Thunderbird autoconfiguration XML
- Compatible with Outlook autodiscovery XML
- Tries to resolve MX and SRV DNS records for more accurate finds
- Optionally can perform test connection and login to found configurations

Limitations
-----------

[](#limitations)

- Gmail accounts cannot be validated via tester and will usually report warning email to user

Why you might need it
---------------------

[](#why-you-might-need-it)

If you are building PHP application which integrates user mailbox. Users usually don't know their email server settings and popular e-mail clients (Thunderbird, Outlook) already fills this information for them

Installation & loading
--------------------------

[](#installation--loading)

Library is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/balgor/mailserver-autodiscovery), and installation via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is the recommended way to install Mail server autodiscovery. Just add this line to your `composer.json` file:

```
"phpmailer/mailserver-autodiscovery": "~1.1"
```

or run

```
composer require balgor/mailserver-autodiscovery
```

Planned Features
----------------

[](#planned-features)

- Validation of CRAM-MD5 password logins
- Autoconfiguration if no service was found by try connecting to Guessed service and reading server capabilities
- Easily fetch fully form string from server to use with php\_imap library
- Convert SMTP server configuration for Swift\_Mailer library usage

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance44

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

5

Last Release

2671d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ea5f9b9724ee051befcc3f844c01902ec588298346c60e68f4272886f757ae63?d=identicon)[balgor](/maintainers/balgor)

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Top Contributors

[![matejsmisek](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3141623?v=4)](https://github.com/matejsmisek "matejsmisek (6 commits)")

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Tags

mailemailsmtpimappop3

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