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+# Symfony Mailer Example
+
+It is quite often a common practice now to see many websites with a contact form that will send the message to the
+recipient via email. What is not always clear is how to achieve this. My intent here is to demonstrate how to
+send email messages using the Symfony mailer component without using the Symfony framework. To keep things simple
+the PHP code will be run via the command line and use SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) for the mail transport.
+I will not be covering how to create the HTML form, how to capture errors/exceptions, but rather focus on the just
+the act of sending an email message using PHP.
+
+## System Requirements
+
+The following must be installed on the system prior to development.
+
+- Composer v2.4.4
+- PHP v8.0.0
+
+## Development Setup
+
+1. Clone project the project locally.
+
+    ```console
+    $ git clone https://git.nixnet.services/adamsdesk/symfony-mailer-example.git
+    ```
+1. Install all dependencies.
+    ```console
+    $ composer install
+    ```
+1. Create Configuration File
+
+    This configuration file is used by Symfony mailer to authenticate to the email server in order to send an email message.
+    It is best practice to store this information separately to help avoid people stealing it.
+
+    ```console
+    $ nano .env
+    ```
+    ```
+    MAILER_PWD="enter-password"
+    MAILER_PREFIX="smtp://username@example.com:"
+    MAILER_SUFFIX="@mail.example.com:465"
+    ```
+
+    **Note:** Enclose the variables in double quotes to avoid the value being truncated
+
+    **Note:** TLS (SSL) peer verification is done by default. This can be disabled by adding "?verify_peer=0" to the end of `MAILER_SUFFIX` (e.g. MAILER_SUFFIX="@mail.example.com:465?verify_peer=0"), though this is not advisable.
+
+## Run The Code
+
+At this stage the code is ready. A successful run will return the prompt and no message will be displayed in the
+terminal. Check your email inbox for the sent email message.
+
+```console
+$ php mailer.php
+```
+
+## Copyright License
+
+The copyright license (LICENSE) is only referring to the source code.