Sending email in PHP using XAMPP Lite 1.7.3 on Windows

I have been unsuccessfully trying to send an email in PHP on XAMPP Lite version 1.7.3 on Windows since yesterday. However today after going through some other blogs and a little bit of my own research I was able to successfully send an email to my gmail account 🙂

Here are the steps I followed:

• Change in php.ini file. The file path is “C:\xampplite\php”  (if your XAMPP Lite folder is in C drive).

1. Search for sendmail_path in your php.ini file and remove the semi colon before it. Then set it to sendmail_path = “C:\xampplite\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t” (Make sure to test this path on your system first and correct it if necessary)

• Changes in sendmail.ini file. The file path is “C:\xampplite\sendmail” (if your XAMPP Lite folder is in C drive).

1. Comment the “Mercury”  and “A free mail service example” contents as shown below:

# Mercury
#account Mercury
#host localhost
#from postmaster@localhost
#auth off

# A freemail service example
#account Hotmail
#tls on
#tls_certcheck off
#host smtp.live.com
#from [exampleuser]@hotmail.com
#auth on
#user [exampleuser]@hotmail.com
#password [examplepassword]

2. Add the account through which you want to send your mails. In my example I have configured the Gmail account as shown below:

account Gmail
tls on
tls_certcheck off
host smtp.gmail.com
from [your_gmail_username]@gmail.com
auth on
user [your_gmail_username]@gmail.com
password [your_gmail_password]

3. Set the default account to Gmail as shown below:

account default : Gmail

• Now the required configuration changes have been done.  We need to restart the Apache Server to reflect the changes in php.ini file.
• I have written a sample program below to check if mail is being sent.

<?php
$subject=”Hi There!!”;
$to=”<insert_receiver_mail_address>”;
$body=”This is my demo email sent using PHP on XAMPP Lite version 1.7.3″;
if (mail($to,$subject,$body))
echo “Mail sent successfully!”;
else
echo “Mail not sent!”;
?>

• On executing the above program I was able to successfully send a mail to any receiver address from PHP using XAMPP Lite 1.7.3 on Windows.
• Hope this blog helps you in case you have encountered a similar problem as I did. Please feel free to comment if this blog was useful to you.

# Mercury
#account Mercury
#host localhost
#from postmaster@localhost
#auth off# A freemail service example
#account Hotmail
#tls on
#tls_certcheck off
#host smtp.live.com
#from [exampleuser]@hotmail.com
#auth on
#user [exampleuser]@hotmail.com
#password [examplepassword]

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