php mail function doesn't want to work

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I know you've got this topic lot of times. The thing I spent all the week reading turorials from this, and other websites. I want to make the mail function to work, but it does'nt really want. My operation system is windows 8. I use wamp as apache,and I tried all the ways to send emails through smtp. I tried gmail and yahoo. I modified the sendmail.ini and php.ini hundred times. I tried phpmailer class, what worked for a while, but when I tried to implement in a contact form, it stoped to work.Now it's not working at all :). I tried the stunnel stuff as well, nothing really happened. Now I just try to sort out a simple mail function to send an email, as first step.The page is blank. It doesn't really give any error, but I don't get the email. These are my settings at the moment.

php.ini file:

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

SMTP =localhost

smtp_port =25

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/sendmail-from

sendmail_from [email protected]

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").

sendmail_path ="\""c:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

sendmail.ini file:

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

; smtp port (normally 25)

smtp_port=587

[email protected]

auth_password=password

I put port number 587, this is what I saw on the last topic I read. I hoped it helps. I tried 25 and 465 as well before. My question is maybe sounds stupid. IS IT POSSIBLE , THAT MY SMTP CONNECTION CAN BE AFFECTED, BY THE OPERATION SYSTEM OR THE FIREWALL OF THE PC?? I just started to learn know php, and I cannot go forward, till I don't solve this issue. Thank you

On Windows, mailing with PHP is extra-hard because you have to provide an SMTP-server that allows you to mail. Additionally, using the native mail function requires you to know how to properly format a mail. I'd suggest you delay the mailing part for now and move on learning PHP better with different tasks - or replace using the native function with using a library for that. Suggestions would be Swiftmail or PHPMailer. — Sven
Yeah..I tried php mailer. It worked at the beginning sending a simple mail . But when I tried to implement it in a contact forms source, it gave me a lot of errors. Yeah..probably I'll be trying to solve it in the next few days(just because it's annoying that I cannot do it:p) and if is not working, I will delay it for a while. — Domjan Carol-Zsolt

andre_northwind andre_northwind · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-01T06:19:10

Have yout tried using PHPMailer? Simply download it from https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer and include it in your code like:

  include ("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
  include ("PHPMailer/class.smtp.php");
  $subject = "your mail subject";
  $body = "your mail body";
  $headers = "From: " . $emailfrom;

  // Send mail
  $mail = new PHPMailer();
  $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

  // SMTP Configuration
  $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
  $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
  $mail->Username = "[email protected]";
  $mail->Password = "your email password";            
  //$mail->Port = 465; // optional if you don't want to use the default 

  $mail->From = "[email protected]";
  $mail->FromName = "name of sender";
  $mail->Subject = $subject;
  $mail->MsgHTML($body);

  // Add as many as you want
  $mail->AddAddress($emailto);

  // If you want to attach a file, relative path to it
  //$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");             // attachment

  $response= NULL;
  if(!$mail->Send()) {
     $response = "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
  } else {
     $response = "Message sent!";
  }

php mail function doesn't want to work

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