# PHP Mail no longer available as Mailer transport in Mautic 3?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** discussion, mautic-3\
**Created:** [October 22, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680 "2020-10-22T11:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexrm1x](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/alexrm1x/32/2500_2.png) [@alexrm1x](https://forum.mautic.org/u/alexrm1x)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680/1 "2020-10-22T11:06:20Z")

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Hello all,

I’m testing version 3.1.1 and I’m surprised of not seeing PHP Mail as a mail transport neither in the installation wizard, nor in the Settings - Configuration - Service to send mail though option.

Is this option going to be available in Mautic 3? All my customer installs are configured with PHP Mail wihtout any issues in years!

Thanks,

Alejandro.-

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**Author:** ![martinus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/martinus/32/433_2.png) [@martinus](https://forum.mautic.org/u/martinus)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680/2 "2020-11-26T16:08:20Z")

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Same for me. ☹

Actually, mails sent by PHP Mailer from a SPF-verified domain had higher acceptance rate than using SendGrid. It got less often into Spam. That means something! 🙂

Do you have any news yourself, in the meantime, Alejandro?

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**Author:** ![silavapi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/silavapi/32/7424_2.png) [@silavapi](https://forum.mautic.org/u/silavapi)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680/3 "2020-11-26T16:18:20Z")

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Hi folks,

I responded to @alexrm1x (I assume it was you!) on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6726534581945741312?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6726534581945741312%2C6730420833979781120%29):

> Hi there, unfortunately PHP Mailer is no longer supported by the swiftmailer package so it had to be deprecated with the 3.0 release.
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> Here’s some further detail: [https://github.com/mautic/mautic/blob/9f281d1e94a5163106f23536969d6f296a6181b2/UPGRADE-3.0.md#configuration](https://github.com/mautic/mautic/blob/9f281d1e94a5163106f23536969d6f296a6181b2/UPGRADE-3.0.md#configuration) - it was changed from mail to sendmail.

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**Author:** ![martinus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/martinus/32/433_2.png) [@martinus](https://forum.mautic.org/u/martinus)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/php-mail-no-longer-available-as-mailer-transport-in-mautic-3/16680/4 "2020-11-27T09:13:52Z")

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Thanks!!

This morning, I checked out my other Mautic instance, which used PHP Mailer so far, and there “Sendmail” was selected. So, I figured out that must be the replacement for PHP Mailer.

Thanks for providing some more info.