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Reputation:

SMTP server with XAMPP?

I am new to php and in my project I have used php mail function, but while sending mail from database it shows an error like:

Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP"

By searching on stackoverflow and google, I come to know that XAMPP does not provide SMTP server and I will have to install a SMTP server.

I am really confused.So, Which SMTP server I should install?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15638

Answers (1)

T. Coeugnet
T. Coeugnet

Reputation: 145

For this example, I will use PHPMailer.

So first, you have to download the source code of PHPMailer. Only 3 files are necessary :

Put these 3 files in the same folder. Then create the main script (I called it 'index.php').

Content of index.php :

<?php

//Load PHPMailer dependencies
require_once 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
require_once 'class.phpmailer.php';
require_once 'class.smtp.php';

/* CONFIGURATION */
$crendentials = array(
    'email'     => '[email protected]',    //Your GMail adress
    'password'  => 'XXXXXXXX'               //Your GMail password
    );

/* SPECIFIC TO GMAIL SMTP */
$smtp = array(

'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => 587,
'username' => $crendentials['email'],
'password' => $crendentials['password'],
'secure' => 'tls' //SSL or TLS

);

/* TO, SUBJECT, CONTENT */
$to         = ''; //The 'To' field
$subject    = 'This is a test email sent with PHPMailer';
$content    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';



$mailer = new PHPMailer();

//SMTP Configuration
$mailer->isSMTP();
$mailer->SMTPAuth   = true; //We need to authenticate
$mailer->Host       = $smtp['host'];
$mailer->Port       = $smtp['port'];
$mailer->Username   = $smtp['username'];
$mailer->Password   = $smtp['password'];
$mailer->SMTPSecure = $smtp['secure']; 

//Now, send mail :
//From - To :
$mailer->From       = $crendentials['email'];
$mailer->FromName   = 'Your Name'; //Optional
$mailer->addAddress($to);  // Add a recipient

//Subject - Body :
$mailer->Subject        = $subject;
$mailer->Body           = $content;
$mailer->isHTML(true); //Mail body contains HTML tags

//Check if mail is sent :
if(!$mailer->send()) {
    echo 'Error sending mail : ' . $mailer->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message sent !';
}

You can also add 'CC', 'BCC' fields etc...

Examples and documentation can be found on Github.

If you need to use another SMTP server, you can modify the values in $smtp.

Note : you may have a problem sending the mail, like 'Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): this stream does not support SSL/crypto'.

In such case, you must enable the OpenSSL extension. Check your phpinfo(), look for the value of 'Loaded Configuration File' (in my case : E:\Program Files\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.2\bin\php.ini) and in this file, uncomment the line extension=php_openssl.dll. Then, restart your XAMPP server.

Upvotes: 4

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