Foreword; I've looked through a lot of topics, done what they said, but nothing works for me - so I made this one.
So I'm using xampp/apache to send mail from a php file, but all I get is "Message delivery failed...".
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or maybe how to display an error of whats going wrong because I don't get any errors.
Here is my code..
(I censored my email and pass for obvious reasons)
if (!mail("censored#gmail.com", "title", "blahblahblah", "From: me#hotmail.com")) {
die("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>") . mysqli_error();
}
?>
sendmail.ini:
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
auth_username=censored#gmail.com
auth_password=censored
php.ini:
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
If any additional information is requested it will be from beyond this point.
Try allowing less secure apps to send you email using this link: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
SElinux blocks sendmail from web server by default, change settings in SElinux as:
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on
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I have spent all the morning searching this on internet trying to find a solution about this.
I have installed wamp server on Windows 8.1 and i'm trying to send some mails with sendmail (http://glob.com.au/sendmail/) and my gmail account
When i configure sendmail to use port nº 465 I always get this error: Socket Error # 10060Connection timed out
If i try to use port nº 587 i get this line on error log: Connection Closed Gracefully. But no email is sent.
This is my sendmail.ini file
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
;I tried both: 587, 465
smtp_port=587
; I tried: "blank, auto ssl, tls, none"
smtp_ssl=
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=myaccoun#gmail.com
auth_password=mypass
hostname=localhost
And this is php.ini file
[mail function]
smtp_port = 465
sendmail_path="C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
mail.add_x_header = On
ssl_module is active on apache, and php uses php_open_ssl and php_socket extension.
Also i tried to use stunnel whitout any success
EDIT 27/01/2014
I set smtp_port = 465 and smtp_ssl=ssl on sendmail.ini. Also, I set that sendmail.exe has to run as a Windows XP SP3 programs. After doing that, when I run sendmail.exe on windows console, it sends the email correctly. However, when wamp tries to send mails i get this error on sendmail's error logs.: Socket Error # 10060Connection timed out.
This is the code I'm using to test sendmail:
<?php
$email = "mymail#gmail.com";
$to = "mymail#gmail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,How are you?";
$headers = 'From: ' .$email . "\r\n".'Reply-To: ' . $email. "\r\n".'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) echo("<p>Email successfully sent</p>");
else echo("<p>Email delivery failed</p>");
?>
Finally I found the answer.
The problem is that sendmail has to be run as an administrator. This is the solution to help any one on my situation.
Right click on sendmail.exe
Properties
Compatibility
Change the configuration for all users
Execute as Windows XP SP 3
Execute as adminitrator
And save :D
2 days lost in this nonsense :(
As an extension to the accepted answer:
If you are running the send mail function in PHP, a dialog may come up to ask you to run the 'send mail' app as admin. Upon cliking 'Yes' it will show a command prompt dialog and nothing will happen and you page will hang until the command prompt is closed. The mail function will even return "True", but in reality no message was sent.
To solve this issue, do the instructions same as the accepted answer and ALSO run the server (or IDE) as admin, by either:
1) Right clicking the program (e.g. server, ide, command prompt) and clicking "Run as Administer"
2) OR Right click program> properties> compatiblity> Tick execute as admin
For instance if your using the PHP in built server, run the command prompt as admin and start the server as normal using
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\php.exe -S localhost:80 -t C:\Users\path\to\rootFolder
Of course change the file paths to suit your needs.
Hope this helps someone!!! Spent ages on this!
The problem is that sendmail has to be run as an administrator. This is the solution to help any one on my situation.
Right click on sendmail.exe
Properties
Compatibility
Change the configuration for all users
Execute as Windows XP SP 3
Execute as adminitrator
if you using gmail you need create new password "Your application-specific passwords"
On Windows 10, I found the only method that worked was to run the Compatibility Troubleshooter.
Right click on sendmail.exe
Click "Properties"
Select the Compatibility tab.
Click "Run Compatibility Troubleshooter".
Let windows fix it automatically.
I have scoured every tutorial out there on how to do this and I am still not getting the desired result so there must be some detail I am missing. The mail() function returns as though it succeeded however I NEVER GET ANY EMAILS in my sent or inbox
In a nutshell I have done the following:
Copied Sendmail.exe and Sendmail.ini along with their dlls to a
folder named Sendmail that resides in c:\program files\wamp\bin\
Edited the sendmail.ini to point to port 465 (for gmail) and smtp to
smtp.gmail.com, also configured the correct user name and password
authentication fields, as well as set smtp_ssl to ssl
Enabled the php_openssl and php_sockets under php extensions in wamp
edited php.ini [mail function] parameters. I commented out everything in win32 and then set smtp_path = c:\program files\wamp\bin\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t" then restarted all serviced on WAMP
Logged into my gmail account and enabled IMAP
Can anyone please help me out here???
This is from : http://blog.techwheels.net/send-email-from-localhost-wamp-server-using-sendmail/
I followed the steps and was able to send emails from wamp server. Your problem seems to be the name of the folder "Program Files" it has a space in it.
If the path to the sendmail.exe contains “space” (for example, “C:\Program Files\PHP\sendmail\”) then Apache would not be able to locate it. So, either store the sendmail.exe at a “non-spaced” location/path OR write the path in DOS style “C:\Progra~1\PHP\sendmail\” in the php.ini (sendmail_path = "C:\Progra~1\PHP\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -i").
Have a look at > http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=examplebgmail
and https://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer
It's a lot easier and it saves a lot of time to send using frameworks rather than attempting to tinker wamp on your own.
(on a side note, it's MUCH easier to send gmail via smtp with python)
Good luck!
$res= mail('myemailaddress#live.com', 'Email verification ','This is my own text');
print $res;
I have tried to send mail to my email id. I have 1 on page. Looks like it's working but it really did not work.
php.ini:
define_syslog_variables = Off
[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = mymailaddressishere#live.in
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program files\xampp-portable) 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 = "\"\xampp-portable\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the \xampp-portable\mailoutput folder
sendmail_path = "\xampp-portable\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.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 = "\xampp-portable\php\logs\php_mail.log"
[SQL]
I want to know that how I can trace what happen to my code. If I need to do some settings in my local php server then tell me about them.
I am using xampp portable "Run as administrator".
There is a line in your file that says:
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the \xampp-portable\mailoutput folder
sendmail_path = "\xampp-portable\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"
In my XAMPP installation, I found that the comment was wrong. You actually have to uncomment the line if you want to use mailToDisk, and the mail is actually written to /tmp/mailoutput.
I can't use a comment system, so I can only post it here. but I think this is not the answer you are looking for.
XAMP might not be able to send email. Most localhost testing environment, such as xamp, or wamp are not able to send email. They need to be set up as mail server first. You could try setting them as mail server, but I think it's easier to just get a free hosting (with some "ugly" subdomain name), and put your script there and try to send mail.
I am going out on a limb by saying this: You don't have an SMTP server installed, let alone running. Just because your php.ini says mail() will use SMTP # localhost:25 doesn't really mean it is installed and running. The mail() function will return true even if it doesn't actually send the letter.
If you have installed an SMTP server (which doesn't come packaged as of now with XAMPP), and have it running, then I apologize. Please post which SMTP server you are using and your services list to ensure it is running. Then it will be easier to diagnose.
EDIT
Just tested on my computer without SMTP server being set up:
$a= #mail('sales#ellsworthpublishing.com', 'asdf', 'asdf');
if(!$a)
echo'False';
else
echo'True';
The output is True.
Is there a way that I can configure the WAMP server for PHP to enable the mail() function?
Configuring a working email client from localhost is quite a chore, I have spent hours of frustration attempting it. I'm sure someone more experienced may be able to help, or they may perhaps agree with me.
If you just want to test, here is a great tool for testing mail locally, that requires almost no configuration:
http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/
Install Fake Sendmail (download sendmail.zip).
Then configure C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.ini:
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
auth_username=user#gmail.com
auth_password=your_password
The above will work against a Gmail account.
And then configure php.ini:
sendmail_path = "C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
Now, restart Apache, and that is basically all you need to do.
Using an open source program call Send Mail, you can send via wamp rather easily actually. I'm still setting it up, but here's a great tutorial by jo jordan. Takes less than 2 mins to setup.
Just tried it and it worked like a charm! Once I uncommented the error log and found out that it was stalling on the pop3 authentication, I just removed that and it sent nicely. Best of luck!
You need a SMTP server to send your mail. If you have one available which does not require SMTP authentification (maybe your ISP's?) just edit the 'SMTP' ([mail function]) setting in your php.ini file.
If this is no option because your SMTP server requires authentification you won't be able to use the internal mail() function and have to use some 3rd party class which supports smtp auth. e.g. http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/
I tried Test Mail Server Tool and while it worked great, you still need to open the email on some client.
I found Papercut:
https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP
(updated URL for 2021)
For configuration it's easy as Test Mail Server Tool (pratically zero-conf), and it also serves as an email client, with views for the Message (great for HTML emails), Headers, Body (to inspect the HTML) and Raw (full unparsed email).
It also has a Sections view, to split up the different media types found in the email.
It has a super clean and friendly UI, a good log viewer and gives you notifications when you receive an email.
I find it perfect, so I just wanted to give my 2c and maybe help someone.
Sendmail wasn't working for me so I used msmtp 1.6.2 w32 and most just followed the instructions at DeveloperSide. Here is a quick rundown of the setup for posterity:
Enabled IMAP access under your Gmail account (the one msmtp is sending emails from)
Enable access for less secure apps. Log into your google account and go here
Edit php.ini, find and change each setting below to reflect the following:
; These are commented out by prefixing a semicolon
;SMTP = localhost
;smtp_port = 25
; Set these paths to where you put your msmtp files.
; I used backslashes in php.ini and it works fine.
; The example in the devside guide uses forwardslashes.
sendmail_path = "C:\wamp64\msmtp\msmtp.exe -d -C C:\wamp64\msmtp\msmtprc.ini -t --read-envelope-from"
mail.log = "C:\wamp64\msmtp\maillog.txt"
Create and edit the file msmtprc.ini in the same directory as your msmtp.exe file as follows, replacing it with your own email and password:
# Default values for all accounts
defaults
tls_certcheck off
# I used forward slashes here and it works.
logfile C:/wamp64/msmtp/msmtplog.txt
account Gmail
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
auth on
tls on
from ReplaceWithYourEmail#gmail.com
user ReplaceWithYourEmail#gmail.com
password ReplaceWithYourPassword
account default : gmail
I used Mercury/32 and Pegasus Mail to get the mail() functional. It works great too as a mail server if you want an email address ending with your domain name.
I'm currently trying to debug an Elgg-based website (I didn't develop it) and I would like to send the emails directly from local development machine (WinXP). I'm running WAMP with Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.3.0
After some searching, the simplest solution that I've come across is using fake sendmail to forward it to my GMail/Google apps account via SMTP and let it do the sending. The problem is that I get no errors whatsoever, but the email isn't being sent.
Here's what I did:
Copied the sendmail.exe and sendmail.ini to a subfolder in WAMP
Configured it via sendmail.ini (the configuration settings are ok)
Edited php.ini to add the path to sendmail.exe
sendmail_path = "C:\Program Files\wamp\bin\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
Commented out the windows SMTP settings in php.ini
; SMTP = localhost
; smtp_port = 25
; sendmail_from = xxx#domain.com
; mail.force_extra_parameters =
The mail.log file shows the following:
mail() on [C:\Program Files\wamp\www\mail.php:9]: To: xxx --
Headers: From: xxx Reply-To: xxx X-Mailer: PHP/5.3.0
My guess is that the problem is that the default Windows option (to specify the server and not the sendmail utility) is not overriden. In phpinfo() I still get the SMTP -> localhost and smtp_port -> 25 options, even though I commented them.
If anyone managed to get this working, I'd really appreciate some help. In my opinion, using fake sendmail is a lot simpler than installing a mail server on your machine.
Thanks!
P.S. Please don't suggest PHPMailer and the like, because I have to use the mail() function. That's how Elgg works.
I've gotten it to work eventually. The problem was that PHP had a bug in parsing .ini files with spaces in the path (for sendmail). It was fixed in version 5.3.0, but the manual had no info on this.
So, yes, it is possible to use sendmail with PHP on Windows :D.
Thank you all for your time!
Make sure you have SMTP Service running on your local machine and that SMTP Port(25) is opened.
Have a check on the services (Run->services.msc) and look for Send Mail Transfer
If you cannot find SMTP on the services list, you must install it:
To add,
Run->appwiz.cpl->Add Remove Windows components->IIS->Details->SMTP
I am not sure if this helps or not, what i used to do in these scenarios was to setup , outlook on my machine and have it set to get emails from the pop every 5 mins or so, that way my ip/machine was authenticated against the pop and if i just set the :
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
in php.ini , the mail function worked fine. So in your case just set your outlook to work with a pop and use that smtp in php.ini and hopefully it should work. I havent tested this will GMail though.
P.S. Please don't suggest PHPMailer and the like, because I have to use the mail() function. That's how Elgg works.
...unless you're using a plugin that changes this behaviour:
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/costelloc/read/16498/phpmailer