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Umar Tahir Bako
Umar Tahir Bako

Reputation: 11

issues while sending email with xampp on localhost

I am working on a project in which I need to send email. My send mail function is:

    ini_set('sendmail_path', "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t");
    ini_set('smtp_server', 'smtp.gmail.com');
    ini_set('smtp_port', 25);
    ini_set('smtp_ssl', 'auto');
    ini_set('error_logfile', 'error.log');
    ini_set('auth_username', '[email protected]');
    ini_set('auth_password', 'mygmail_password');

    //sendmail_from('[email protected]');

    $to = '[email protected]';
    $subject = 'Hello from XAMPP!';
    $message = 'This is a test';
    $headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n";
    if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
       echo "SUCCESS";
    } else {
       echo "ERROR";
    }

But I am getting following error

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\umtab\xampp\htdocs\umtab\email.php on line 23

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1438

Answers (1)

Andrea
Andrea

Reputation: 191

As you can see from the error: you get Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25. It's written localhost, like the server is not properly set.

I think that ini_set('smtp_server', 'smtp.gmail.com'); is not working.

Try to use ini_set('SMTP','smtp.gmail.com'); instead ... that should be the correct way to set the SMTP server!

But anyway, as suggested by @ADyson, it would be better using PHPMailer. You can read the documentation and the usage right here.

Andrea

Upvotes: 1

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