I have set up a PHP site that will be locally hosted. One function of this is to send an email with items from a shopping cart. When hosted online (for testing) the email() function worked perfectly sending email.
I'm now transferring the site to a local machine, and am unable to send email.
Originally the emails came from servername@hostname.co.uk which worked well, although I'd happily set up a gmail or similar to handle the sending.
I've read a few tutorials about setting things up and have firstly tried using sendmail and a gmail address.
I'm wondering if there's something simple I've missed in setting up the ini files.
I edited my php.ini file as follows:
[mail function]
XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 587
For Win32 only.
http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = shipimageemail@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: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 filename
mail.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"
and then my sendmail.ini file as follows:
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=shipimageemail@gmail.com
auth_password=password
force_sender=shipimageemail@gmail.com
