Sending emal using Xampp
I have been trying to send email for 2 days. using php I have tried different methods but to no avail .
I am sure I am making some small mistake.
Please can someone give step by step procedure of sending mail using Xampp?
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What have you tried that is not working ?
http://expertester.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/how-to-send-email-from-xampp-php/
I followed all the steps .Here is my php
<?php
//email(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)
$to="<swissknife007@gmail.com>";
$subject="Hi";
$message="Hello my friend";
$from="swissknife007@gmail.com";
$headers = "From: sender@sender.com" ;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo" mail sent";
?>
The error I am getting is
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 wp7sm14504615igc.6 in F:\xampp\htdocs\email1.php on line 11
mail sent
Please help now.
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Your password is set correctly in the ini file ?
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Your password is set correctly in the ini file ?
yes
I in the sendmail.ini it is set correctly
can u repeat the php.ini settings for me as i have changed them quite a lot now only for send mail function.
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It's in the link in the previous post.
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yes
I in the sendmail.ini it is set correctly
can u repeat the php.ini settings for me as i have changed them quite a lot now only for send mail function.
somebody help please
yes it doesn't have all the send mail setings though
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 587;
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = swissknife007@gmail.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = “\”F:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\” -t”
; 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 = "F:\xampp\php\logs\php_mail.log"
are my settings correct?
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<html>
<body>
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
{
//send email
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail("someone@example.com", "$subject",
$message, "From:" . $email);
echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
}
else
//if "email" is not filled out, display the form
{
echo "<form method='post' action='mailform.php'>
Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>
</textarea><br />
<input type='submit' />
</form>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
And in your php.ini make sure you have these set correctly
[mail function]
SMTP = "my.mailserver.dom" //localhost, gmail, yahoo..
smtp_port = 25
smtp_username = "" <-- If mail server requires a username
smtp_password = "" <-- If mail server requires a password
//Change values
//PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_from NULL
//PHP_INI_SYSTEM
sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"
Hope this helps
i am getting this error now
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Mailserver rejected our "sendmail_from" setting in F:\xampp\htdocs\email1.php on line 11
mail sent
Does ; before any statement in php.ini denote a comment?
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Correct, ; starts a comment.
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Correct, ; starts a comment.
i had posted my php.ini settings are they correct
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i had posted my php.ini settings are they correct
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 587;
;smtp_username = "swissknife007"
;smtp_password = *************
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = ""
sendmail_path = “F:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t”
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = “\”F:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\” -t”
; 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 = "F:\xampp\php\logs\php_mail.log"
No help yet.Do I require phpmailer class?
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No help yet. Do I require phpmailer class?
Using PHPMailer would've saved you all this hassle.
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