How to add PHPMailer Library in Drupal 9

This step should have been completed upon the installation of Drupal 8 for getting PHPMailer function

Install Composer

# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Move Composer binary to usr bin path

# mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Check Composer Version

# composer --version

Go to Drupal root Directory and execute

Drupal Installation Directory - /var/www/html

# cd /var/www/html/

# composer require 'drupal/phpmailer_smtp:^2.1'

Restart PHP-FPM / apache2 Service

# systemctl restart php-fpm

# systemctl restart apache2

Verify Library in Drupal vendor folder

# ls -l vendor/phpmailer/

Add SMTP Credentials in Drupal Configuration

• Login as admin in Drupal
• Enable Module - Extend- > Install new Module -> PHPMailer SMTP
• Configuration -> System - > PHPMailer SMTP