How to configure XAMPP to send mail from localhost

Question

I am trying to send mail from localhost. but i am unable to send the mail from localhost so can anybody tell me that how to reconfigure my xampp to send mail from localhost

Answer 1

You can test send mail in Your PC without Internet

you should use Papercut this simple application to test send mail. and you don't need to configure anything.

Just run it and try test send mail:

test_sendmail.php

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "My subject";
$txt = "Hello world!";
$headers = "From: [e-mail]" . "\r\n" .
"CC: [e-mail]";

mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers);
?>

and you will see this:

I hope you will have a good day. you can find me on Youtube for more tutorial Piseth Sok

Cheer!

Answer 2

You can send mail from localhost with sendmail package , sendmail package is inbuild in XAMPP. So if you are using XAMPP then you can easily send mail from localhost.

for example you can configure C:\xampp\php\php.ini and c:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini for gmail to send mail.

in C:\xampp\php\php.ini find extension=php_openssl.dll and remove the semicolon from the beginning of that line to make SSL working for gmail for localhost.

in php.ini file find [mail function] and change

SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = [e-mail]
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

Now Open C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini. Replace all the existing code in sendmail.ini with following code

[sendmail]

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=[e-mail]
auth_password=my-gmail-password
force_sender=[e-mail]

Now you have done!! create php file with mail function and send mail from localhost.

PS: don't forgot to replace my-gmail-id and my-gmail-password in above code. Also, don't forget to remove duplicate keys if you copied settings from above. For example comment following line if there is another sendmail_path : sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe" in the php.ini file

Also remember to restart the server using the XAMMP control panel so the changes take effect.

For gmail please check https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255 to allow access from less secure apps.

To send email on Linux (with sendmail package) through Gmail from localhost please check PHP+Ubuntu Send email using gmail form localhost.

Answer 3

For people on windows 8 if you want to do this i would really recommend reading this tutorial i found: http://yogeshchaugule.com/blog/2013/configure-sendmail-wamp

Its not written by me but after slamming my head into a concrete wall for 2,5 hours not getting this to work with the weirdest errors like:

• Connection timed out.
• Connection Closed Gracefully.

I finally found that tutorial were upon installation of https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html and the configuration of Stunnel. It finally worked.