Send email from localhost running XAMMP in PHP usi

Question

I try to send an email from localhost to my yahoo email account using php mail() function, the return says I successfully send the email but I did not get any email. I've been reading and trying many so called 'simple way' to send email but the result are disappointing, none of them work for me. Below are the code, the configurations and the error message. Can someone enlighten me with this? Thanks.

php code

<?php
$to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'Fake sendmail test';
$message = 'If we can read this, it means that our fake Sendmail setup works!';
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
           'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
           'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
    echo 'Email sent successfully!';
} else {
    die('Failure: Email was not sent!');
}
?>

Configuration for php.ini (I'm using gmail mail server)

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

Configuration for sendmail.ini

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

error message in sendmail error log with port 587

13/10/02 13:36:41 : Must issue a STARTTLS command first. k4sm129639pbd.11 - gsmtp

Answer 1

require_once "Mail.php";

$from = '<from.gmail.com>';
$to = '<to.yahoo.com>';
$subject = 'Hi!';
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$headers = array(
    'From' => $from,
    'To' => $to,
    'Subject' => $subject
);

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array(
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'port' => '465',
        'auth' => true,
        'username' => '[e-mail]',
        'password' => 'passwordxxx'
    ));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
    echo('<p>' . $mail->getMessage() . '</p>');
} else {
    echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p>');
}

Answer 2

Simplest way is to use PHPMailer and Gmail SMTP. The configuration would be like the below.

require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->isSMTP();                            
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';            
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                     
$mail->Username = 'Email Address';          
$mail->Password = 'Email Account Password'; 
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';               
$mail->Port = 587;                  

Example script and full source code can be found from here - How to Send Email from Localhost in PHP

Answer 3

[sendmail]

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com  
smtp_port=25  
error_logfile=error.log  
debug_logfile=debug.log  
auth_username=[e-mail] 
auth_password=gmailpassword  
force_sender=[e-mail]

need authenticate username and password of mail then only once can successfully send mail from localhost