Using PHP locally to send an email giving no error but no email received

Asked Aug 02 '18 at 07:34

Active Aug 02 '18 at 07:46

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EDIT

I uncomment sendmail_path and set it as sendmail_path = "sendmail -t -i". Now there is no error but no email received.

The port is 25, and tls://smtp.gmail.com is the server.

END EDIT

I need to send an email, locally, to an the admin, when a user request a new password. At the top of my API.php file, I have added the following ini_set() lines:

ini_set("SMTP","tls://smtp.gmail.com");

// Please specify an SMTP Number 25 and 8889 are valid SMTP Ports.
ini_set("smtp_port","587");

// Please specify the return address to use
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'example@YourDomain.com');

And also, I've changed the php.ini file to the same values:

mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = tls://smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 587

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from ="admin@wampserver.invalid"

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =

The error I am having is:

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "tls://smtp.gmail.com" port 587, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp64\www\dev\api.php on line 165

I used the scripts at line 165 but still the same. I have openssl enabled as echo phpinfo(); showed.

I changed the port to 25, with localhost as smtp, but still the same error.

The following didn't help me as it is giving me the same error message.

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try with port 465 – suresh Aug 02 '18 at 07:36
The same error. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:38
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I would really recommend that you use one of the tried and tested high level mail libraries, like PHPMailer, SwiftMailer or similar instead of PHP's own low level API. It makes the code way more verbose. It will also make your code more portable (since it won't require any system configuration). – M. Eriksson Aug 02 '18 at 07:39
ini_set("SMTP","ssl://smtp.gmail.com"); ini_set("smtp_port","465"); try to change like this instead of tls use ssl with port 465 and then check – suresh Aug 02 '18 at 07:40
@suresh didn't work as well. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:41
@Sinto I saw it and didn't work for me to sir. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:42
http://php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php#ini.smtp not sure about `tls://` – Deadooshka Aug 02 '18 at 07:44
did you try changing this line SMTP = tls://smtp.gmail.com to SMTP = localhost – suresh Aug 02 '18 at 07:44
@suresh yes I did. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:45
Yes I still have the same error – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:46
Check my edit in a minute guys – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:50
You can check my edits please. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 07:51
did you set your to mail? i mean send_email path – suresh Aug 02 '18 at 08:03
Yeah, And that what made crazy about why not working. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 08:06
;sendmail_path = is this the one you have told you have set? try to Restart Wamp Server. – suresh Aug 02 '18 at 08:08
Yes I uncomment it and restart it, I think I will go for PHPMailer library instead. – alim1990 Aug 02 '18 at 08:11
Maybe look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/712392/send-email-using-the-gmail-smtp-server-from-a-php-page, since that is also trying to send mail via GMail – jc1arke Aug 02 '18 at 08:37

Using PHP locally to send an email giving no error but no email received

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