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I want to send an email from localhost but I don't know how to install mail server, so I do this way:

<?php
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Gui mail su dung PHPmailer and gmail</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php 
require_once('PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php'); 
?>
<?php
define('GUSER', 'tranlinh.nmt@gmail.com'); // I wonder here: is this my gmail account?
define('GPWD', '123456'); // is this password for this email that will be sent
function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body) { 
    global $error;
    $mail = new PHPMailer();  // tạo một đối tượng mới từ class PHPMailer
    $mail->IsSMTP(); // bật chức năng SMTP
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;  // kiểm tra lỗi : 1 là  hiển thị lỗi và thông báo cho ta biết, 2 = chỉ thông báo lỗi
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;  // bật chức năng đăng nhập vào SMTP này
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // sử dụng giao thức SSL vì gmail bắt buộc dùng cái này
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 465; 
    $mail->Username = GUSER;  
    $mail->Password = GPWD;           
    $mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->Body = $body;
    $mail->AddAddress($to);
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        $error = 'sending error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo; 
        return false;
    } else {
        $error = 'Done';
        return true;
    }
}  
smtpmailer('tranlinh.fit@gmail.com', '', 'tranlinh.nmt@mail.com', 'tranlinh', 'subject', 'content'); 
if (smtpmailer) {
    echo "sending email DONE!";
}
if (!empty($error)) echo $error;  
?>
</body>
</html>

But it raises error.I don't know why
Please help me clarify this problem! Thanks a lot!

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Member Avatar for rajarajan2017

Just give

$mail->Username = 'rajarajan06';
$mail->Password = 'test';

remove the define statements
My gmail id is look like: rajarajan06@gmail.com

No need to give your gmail address as a user name, bcoz you already gave the gmail smtp as smtp.gmail.com. so user name is enough instead of mail

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Also please post the error message shown

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I have just tried to do like your suggestion but it also does not work properly.
Here is the error message: Invalid address: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. sending email DONE!sending error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
Should I need to change the smtp in the php.ini file because I see in this file the smtp port is 25 but in the PHPMailer it is 456.

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Please change the user name with your hosting name. like rajarajan06@gmail.com

Member Avatar for rajarajan2017

Finally try this one, It will work

$mail->Host ="ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
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