Mail() Function

[rotten69]

Hey everyone,

I was doing a search on good tutorials on how to use the mail function. I thought it would be as easy as what PHP api tells me how to use it. I stored the value of mail() in a variable if the variable is true then I will get a message saying "success". Otherwise, a "fail" message will be given.

I get the success message displayed and get a warning as well about the port 25 and smtp.gmail.com. I suppose since it is just a warning, it isn't going to affect anything because the value of mail() is true which means it successfuly gets through. But unfortunately, I don't receive any Email.

Does anyone know how to send Emails using localhost and Gmail account without installing any Mail Client? or Just sending dummy emails?

Cheers,

Never done it from localhost but have from my actual web domain.

Maybe
http://roshanbh.com.np/2007/12/sending-e-mail-from-localhost-in-php-in-windows-environment.html

And maybe:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600725/how-to-configure-wamp-localhost-to-send-email-using-gmail

[urtrivedi]

If its just your computer or you are in network
You must know ip/domain name of SMTP server in your network

open php.ini file

[mail function]
SMTP = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (YOUR smtp ip like)
smtp_port = 25

now your php ini should look like this somewhere

restrat apache service

echo mail (......);

on success it will return 1 else nothing, if success you will receive mail within few seconds

[rotten69]

For some reason, the mail function isn't working.