first off I want to assure you that I have looked this up. I have been at this all day and have read multiple articles both here on Stack Overflow and elsewhere. I have tried multiple settings/configurations, all sorts of trial and errors, etc... I realize that I have to be doing something wrong/not seeing something but I just cannot seem to get it.
I am using XAMPP v3.2.1 (according to the Control Panel) on a Windows 8.1 machine. This is just used for development/learning as XAMPP is intended. I am just trying to get this working to make sure my scripts are running fine. Everything seems to be working but I am just not receiving any e-mails from my script, which is just a simple mail script to test and see if it is working -
<?php
mail("myid@yahoo.com", "Sample Mail", "Sample Content", "From:myid@gmail.com");
?>
Here is my code for the php.ini file -
[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
SMTP=gmail.com
smtp_port=587
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from=myid@gmail.com
; 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:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the C:\xampp\mailoutput folder
;sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"`
And here is my code from the sendmail.ini file -
[sendmail]
; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,
; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup)
; 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=smtp.gmail.com
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=587
; 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 SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
; 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=gmail.com
; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable logging
error_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 lines
auth_username=myid@gmail.com
auth_password=mypassword
; 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=myid@gmail.com
; 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 required
hostname=gmail.com`
If I have left anything out or if any other information is needed, please let me know as I am happy to provide it. Thanks in advance for any help.
