Cannot get a simple email to work from localhost

[mrherman]

 

 

Hi, folks --

 

I've been working on this for quite awhile, and have done lots of searching, but I still cannot make it work.  Using Xampp on Win 7 x64, with PHP 5.3.  Here is my simple PHP code just trying to get something to work:

 

$to      = 'my_real_email@gmail.com';  
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: someone@localhost.com' ;

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

(NOTE: "my_real_email" is set to my actual email address.)

 

Here are my php.ini settings:

 

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
; sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "\"E:\xampplite\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 = "E:\xampplite\apache\logs\php_mail.log"

 

I'm not getting an error and the email seems to be getting "logged", but I do not receive an actual email in my account.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Zurev]

I'm going to go ahead and assume your ISP doesn't support your own smtp server, try uploading the script to a website and see if it works.

[mrherman]

Thank you, Zurev.  I don't actually have a website, just a learner right now using localhost.  I may not have understood what you meant..?

 

Thanks.

[Rifts]

short version: you cant send mail with localhost

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

Yes you can, if you have a properly configured mail server, and your ISP allows it, among other things.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

See this post and the whole thread it is part of - http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/php-installation-configuration/mail-function-not-working-319686/msg1506752/#msg1506752

[mrherman]

Well, thanks, everyone!  I spent a lot of time experimenting, etc., and never could get any configuration to work.  Now I know why.

 

Happy New Year!

 

David