Send email from localhost running XAMMP in PHP using GMAIL mail server

Question

I try to send an email from localhost to my yahoo email account using php mail   function  the return says I successfully send the email but I did not get any email  I ve been reading and trying many so called  simple way  to send email but the result are disappointing  none of them work for me  Below are the code  the configurations and the error message  Can someone enlighten me with this  Thanks   php code   lt  php  to         myemail yahoo com    subject    Fake sendmail test    message    If we can read this  it means that our fake Sendmail setup works     headers    From  myemail egmail com      r n                Reply-To  myemail gmail com      r n                X-Mailer  PHP     phpversion     if mail  to   subject   message   headers         echo  Email sent successfully      else       die  Failure  Email was not sent         gt    Configuration for php ini  I m using gmail mail server      SMTP  smtp gmail com   smtp port  587   sendmail from   myemail gmail com   sendmail path      C  xampp sendmail sendmail exe   -t    Configuration for sendmail ini     smtp server smtp gmail com   smtp port 587   smtp ssl tls   error logfile error log   debug logfile debug log   auth username myemail gmail com   auth password mypassword   force sender myemail gmail com   error message in sendmail error log with port 587     13 10 02 13 36 41   Must issue a STARTTLS command first  k4sm129639pbd 11 - gsmtp

User · Answer

Simplest way is to use PHPMailer and Gmail SMTP. The configuration would be like the below.

require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->isSMTP();                            
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';            
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                     
$mail->Username = 'Email Address';          
$mail->Password = 'Email Account Password'; 
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';               
$mail->Port = 587;

Example script and full source code can be found from here - How to Send Email from Localhost in PHP

User · Answer

Don t forget to generate a second password for your Gmail account  You will use this new password in your code  Read this   https   support google com accounts answer 185833  Under the section  How to generate an App password  click on  App passwords   then under  Select app  choose  Mail   select your device and click  Generate   Your second password will be printed on the screen

User · Answer

in php ini file uncomment this one  sendmail path      C  xampp sendmail sendmail exe   -t   sendmail path  C  xampp mailtodisk mailtodisk exe    and in sendmail ini  smtp server smtp gmail com smtp port 465 error logfile error log debug logfile debug log auth username your gmail com auth password yourpassword force sender your gmail com hostname localhost   configure this one  it will works   it working fine for me   thanks

User · Answer

sendmail   smtp server smtp gmail com   smtp port 25   error logfile error log   debug logfile debug log   auth username myemail gmail com  auth password gmailpassword   force sender myemail gmail com   need authenticate username and password of mail then only once can successfully send mail from localhost

User · Answer

Here s the link that gives me the answer    Install  the  quot fake sendmail for windows quot   If you are not using XAMPP you can download it here  http   glob com au sendmail sendmail zip  Modify  the php ini file to use it  commented out the other lines     mail function    For Win32 only    SMTP   smtp gmail com   smtp port   25    For Win32 only    sendmail from    lt e-mail username gt  gmail com    For Unix only  You may supply arguments as well  default   quot sendmail -t -i quot    sendmail path    quot C  xampp sendmail sendmail exe -t quot     ignore the  quot Unix only quot  bit  since we actually are using sendmail   You then have to configure the  quot sendmail ini quot  file in the directory where sendmail was installed   sendmail   smtp server smtp gmail com smtp port 25 error logfile error log debug logfile debug log auth username  lt username gt  auth password  lt password gt  force sender  lt e-mail username gt  gmail com   To access a Gmail account protected by 2-factor verification  you will need to create an application-specific password   source

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