Failed to connect to mailserver at localhost port 25

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I keep getting this error when I try to send an e-mail in PHP   Warning  mail    function mail   Failed to connect to mailserver at  localhost  port 25  verify your  SMTP  and  smtp port  setting in php ini or use ini set   in C  wamp www dressoholic register php on line 50   my php ini looks like this    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   you yoursite com   I m using my laptop as a server   What am I doing wrong  Thanks

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First of all  you aren t forced to use an SMTP on your localhost  if you change that localhost entry into the DNS name of the MTA from your ISP provider  who will let you relay mail  it will work right away  so no messing about with your own email service   Just try to use your providers SMTP servers  it will work right away

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If you are running your application just on localhost and it is not yet live  I believe it is very difficult to send mail using this   Once you put your application online  I believe that this problem should be automatically solved  But i think ini set   helps you to change the values in php ini during run time

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You need to be running a mail server locally  If this is Unix  enable sendmail If this is Windows  install the Simple Mail Transfer Server  not sure if the name is correct  component of IIs   E g  for windows 2003 follow this  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library 8b83ac7t aspx

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PHP mail function can send email in 2 scenarios   a  Try to send email via unix sendmail program At linux it will exec program  sendmail   put all params to sendmail and that all   OR  b  Connect to mail server  using smtp protocol and host port username pass from php ini  and try to send email    If php unable to connect to email server it will give warning  and you see such workning in your logs  To solve it  install smtp server on your local machine or use any available server  How to setup   configure smtp you can find on php net

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For sending mails using php  mail function is used  But mail function requires SMTP server for sending emails  we need to mention SMTP host and SMTP port in php ini file  Upon successful configuration of SMTP server mails will be sent successfully sent through php scripts

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Change SMTP localhost to SMTP smtp gmail com

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On windows  nearly all AMPP  Apache MySQL PHP PHPmyAdmin  packages don t include a mail server  but nearly all naked linuxes do have    So  when using PHP under windows  you need to setup a mail server   Imo the best and most simple tool ist this  http   smtp4dev codeplex com   SMTP4Dev is a simple one-file mail server tool that does collect the mails it send  so it does not really sends mail  it just keeps them for development   Perfect tool

[php] Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25

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