selath Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 (edited) Im having a problem with respect to sending out emails using XAMPP as my local server. After some resarches and videos... I found out that the mail function doesn't work automatically with local web Servers such as (xampp, wampp. ampps .... and all other kind of "amppss out there!"). I know that in order to the function work properly i have to reformat some php.ini and sandmail.ini files in the root of my server. My question is : Is there any other way of doing this ? i mean using the mail() function with my local server ON ? Do i really have to buy a server in order to use this ? oh! there's also this guy on youtube that discovered a tool called "Test mail server tool". here's the link if you're interested: http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/ What basically this tool allows us to do is: it will catch any email that are sent from the mail function and display them in a textEditor. And that would be fine for me since i just want to test. But that tool doesn't work for windows 8.1 -.- So im getting a little bit frustaded over this Any advice on what i should do ? Thank you Maybe the problem is in my code ? <?php $to = 'example1@example.com';$subject = 'this is the subject';$header =' from: $email';$name = $_POST['name'];$email = $_POST['email'];$message = $_POST['message']; $body = <<<EMAIL Person name: $name Person Email: $email $message From: $name EMAIL;if($_POST){ if($name ==''|| $email=='' || $message==''){ $feedback='feed back message'; }else{ mail($to, $subject, $body, $header); $feedback = ' feedback message'; } } ?> Edited July 3, 2015 by selath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 If you want to test that locally then you need to install a mail server, things like XAMPP do not include a mail server. There are several free mail servers you can install and configure so that PHP will work with it, but you might also have a problem if your ISP blocks outgoing mail ports. Some ISPs will block those ports if you have a regular home account instead of a business account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolshrimp Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) i got this working myself after a bit of time yesterday.!!i have emails sending thru smtp of my gmail account. (cound not get hotmail working)On 64-Bit Windows 8 running Xamppyou will need to do 4 things.Make A Gmail account we will use there smtp to send out emails.Nex install program called Stunnel (MANDITORY MAKES IT ALL WORK): https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.htmlNext open up php.ini for xammp make changes below serch for "[mail function]" set following: [mail function]; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like MercurySMTP=localhostsmtp_port=465; For Win32 only.; http://php.net/sendmail-from;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost;sendmail_from = YOUREMAIL; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:program filesC:xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path. ; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)sendmail_path = ""C:xamppsendmailsendmail.exe" -t"; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the C:xamppmailoutput folder;sendmail_path="C:xamppmailtodiskmailtodisk.exe"; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.;mail.force_extra_parameters =; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filenamemail.add_x_header=Off; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers;mail.log = "C:xamppphplogsphp_mail.log" now go into "C:/Xampp/sendmail" and open sendmail.ini edit bellow replacing ur User and pasword [sendmail]; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:InetpubmailrootPickup); emails delivered via IIS's pickup directory cause sendmail to; run quicker, but you won't get error messages back to the calling; application.smtp_server=localhost; smtp port (normally 25)smtp_port=25; SMTPS (SSL) support; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS; ssl = alway use SSL; tls = always use TLS; none = never try to use SSLsmtp_ssl=none; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn't provided; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify;default_domain=mydomain.com; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe); uncomment to enable loggingerror_logfile=error.log; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe); uncomment to enable debugging;debug_logfile=debug.log; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two linesauth_username=YOUREMAILauth_password=YOURPASSWORD; if your smtp server uses pop3 before smtp authentication, modify the ; following three lines. do not enable unless it is required.;pop3_server=;pop3_username=;pop3_password=; force the sender to always be the following email address; this will only affect the "MAIL FROM" command, it won't modify ; the "From: " header of the message content;force_sender=; force the sender to always be the following email address; this will only affect the "RCTP TO" command, it won't modify ; the "To: " header of the message content;force_recipient=; sendmail will use your hostname and your default_domain in the ehlo/helo; smtp greeting. you can manually set the ehlo/helo name if requiredhostname= now restart ur xammp (apache server) Edited July 28, 2015 by coolshrimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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