It can be difficult getting the PHP’s default mail functions to work when you run an apache server on windows instead of a unix environment.
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Initially, I did it my way and got this error from the log file:
Posted 25 Apr 2009 at 8:30 am ¶Socket Error # 10061Connection refused
I latter did it your way and it was taking a lot of time. I checked the log file and found this error :
Connection Closed Gracefully.
Did you end up receiving the email? If not, which log file did you see that error in?
Posted 25 Apr 2009 at 8:32 am ¶some anti-virus product limit what applications are allowed to send mail via port 25 (SMTP). ensure that sendmail.exe is in your list of approved applications.
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 7:10 am ¶Hi,
I get the error
09/04/27 14:36:56 : Must issue a STARTTLS command first
with this setup..
seems like my xampp is not using tls?
any hints?
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 4:38 pm ¶-totte
@Totte
I added the two dll’s and the error changed to
09/04/27 14:41:17 : Range check error
-totte
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 4:43 pm ¶@Totte
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 4:45 pm ¶Would you mind posting your sendmail.ini file? — taking care to remove any personal information such as username / pass / email, etc.
Hi again,
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 4:50 pm ¶My xampp now works, with your settings and those dlls. It seemed I had to not only restart xampp, but also firefox to avoid that Range Check error.
Great, thanks!
@Totte
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 5:42 pm ¶Good to hear, glad you got it working.
Actually, it did not work. I mistakenly was visiting my “real” server
I get the error
09/04/27 15:54:33 : Range check error
And I found this about the dll that downloads from your page
http://www.greatis.com/appdata/d/s/ssleay32.dll.htm
does not look good.. ?
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 6:00 pm ¶@Totte
No, the DLL is fine. Maybe Byron, who posted above, can help determine what that error means. He is actually the developer of the program. On the fake sendmails site, here is a quote from the troubleshooting section:
“i’ve had a few reports of sendmail returning a “range check error”. i have tracked this to a bug in the indy sockets library and it has been fixed in version 18.”
Link: http://glob.com.au/sendmail/
In the meantime, would you mind posting your configuration ini? Be sure to take out any private info.
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 6:47 pm ¶Thanks,
well, the range check error comes after like 1 minute “processing”…
Anyway, here is my sendmail.ini
-totte
; configuration for fake sendmail
; if this file doesn’t exist, sendmail.exe will look for the settings in
; the registry, under HKLM\Software\Sendmail
[sendmail]
; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,
; or to IIS’s “pickup” directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup)
; emails delivered via IIS’s pickup directory cause sendmail to
; run quicker, but you won’t get error messages back to the calling
; application.
smtp_server=smtp.live.com
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=25
smtp_ssl=auto
; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry
; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn’t provided
; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify
default_domain=monkisoft.com
; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable logging
error_logfile=error.log
; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable debugging
;debug_logfile=debug.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
auth_username=********
auth_password=*******
; if your smtp server uses pop3 before smtp authentication, modify the
; following three lines
;pop3_server=
;pop3_username=
;pop3_password=
; to force the sender to always be the following email address, uncomment and
; populate with a valid email address. this will only affect the “MAIL FROM”
; command, it won’t modify the “From: ” header of the message content
force_sender=
; sendmail will use your hostname and your default_domain in the ehlo/helo
; smtp greeting. you can manually set the ehlo/helo name if required
hostname=localhost
Posted 28 Apr 2009 at 12:17 am ¶make sure you’re running the latest version (i don’t know what version xampp distribute).
failing that i’ll really need the log files and stack traces; follow the instruction on the sendmail site if you require direct assistance from me
Posted 28 Apr 2009 at 12:22 am ¶@byron
Thanks for following up.
Totte, here is the help link: http://glob.com.au/sendmail/help/
Post back when you figure it out!
Posted 28 Apr 2009 at 7:33 am ¶Hi, I tried the new version of xampp with sendmail and get the same errors. Im using mercury instead.. would be nice to get it working though. I will try it on another machine later on.
Posted 29 Apr 2009 at 12:03 pm ¶Hi. thanks for the post, it is the most helpful I’ve found anywhere and really has dissolved a huge amount of frustration. Thanks again.
Posted 23 Jul 2009 at 10:00 am ¶@gordee
Posted 24 Jul 2009 at 1:11 pm ¶I’m glad it helped.
Hi
I am trying to send email to my gmail account using PHP contact us page and getting real hard time. I followed all the steps mentioned by you in this very simple blog. But unfortunately I am getting connect time out error. I am using wamp server 2.0 with fake sendmail program with ssl. Changed all the necessary configuration entries but none worked. Although my contact us page says, the email sent successfully. Not sure where is the issue?
Posted 10 Aug 2009 at 1:16 pm ¶@Sri
Posted 16 Aug 2009 at 9:18 am ¶It is a little hard to tell without knowing anything about the contact us script or your server configuration. With that info, I can’t tell whether it is a problem with sendmail or the script. Maybe you could contact the developer of the script.
Thank you! This worked like a charm.
Posted 12 Sep 2009 at 3:28 pm ¶i followed the procedure u have written and ended up with this
……………………………………………………………………………..
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at “smtp.gmail.com” port 465, verify your “SMTP” and “smtp_port” setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 26
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 27
this error comes when i use ini_set() in mail file that is
ini_set(sendmail_from,”********@gmail.com”);
ini_set(SMTP,”smtp.gmail.com”);
ini_set(smtp_port,”465″);
…………………………………………………………………………
but when i remove this and change my php.ini
as
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 465
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = *******@gmail.com
sendmail_path = “\”C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\”-t”
i get this error
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 … Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [117.192.137.222] in C:\xampp\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 23
………………………………………………………………………………
……………….
both errors accompany me after i changed the sendmail.ini file
and i have also added these two files libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=465
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
default_domain=gmail.com
auth_username=********@gmail.com
auth_password=**********
…………………………………………………………………….
can u please tell me what is the actual problem i am facing ……….. help would be appreciated and grateful….
Posted 24 Nov 2009 at 11:52 am ¶ei buddy, im researching for my project to work, glad you can help me… I have this simple script
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And i want it to be send on a yahoo mail, just to test if my xampp is working.. i’m having trouble because your topic is about Gmail, yet mine wants to be on Yahoo.. also i’m having trouble locating those *.ini files… can you please guide me friend
Posted 25 Nov 2009 at 2:25 pm ¶EI buddy can you please help me, is this applicable if i want to send an email coming from my localhost XAMPP to yahoo mail?
This is my script I created, is this right, mate?
Posted 25 Nov 2009 at 2:29 pm ¶The sendmail directory is located in the XAMPP install directory — that is where the *ini files should be. Yahoo should also work, just change the smtp settings accordingly.
Posted 25 Nov 2009 at 5:09 pm ¶Can’t see your script, sorry. Try the Contact form.
Posted 25 Nov 2009 at 5:10 pm ¶You are a genius, Brett – thanks a million – finally all is working as it should on my Apache XAMPP using Gmail. Fantastic work worth financial rewards. I do like to donate tell me how
Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 10:43 pm ¶Robert M.
Glad I could help, Robert. I put up a donate button on the right sidebar, but don’t feel obligated
Posted 11 Jan 2010 at 6:25 am ¶The sendmail.ini in my xampp sendmail folder looks different from yours and the contents are as follows. Can you tell me why? My version xampp is 1.7.3
# Example for a user configuration file
# Set default values for all following accounts.
defaults
logfile “C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.log”
# 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]
# Set a default account
Posted 16 Jan 2010 at 4:53 am ¶account default : Mercury
Just copy and paste the configuration of my sendmail.ini file (above) into yours, follow the rest of the instructions, and see if that works. It is not supposed to be exactly how my setup is by default.
Posted 16 Jan 2010 at 11:06 am ¶Could you please help me? Here are the steps I followed:
1. Modify php\php.ini (My XAMPP version is 1.7.1 and I cannot find apache\bin\php.ini)
2. Modify sendmail\sendmail.ini
3. Download sendmail_ssl.zip file (this step is done after I did not get success without it)
4. Restart Apache
5. Run send mail script
But all I get is no response, no error log file is created.
Here is the script to send email:
$from_name = “my name”;
Posted 20 Jan 2010 at 4:35 am ¶$from_email = “myemail@gmail.com”;
$headers = “From: $from_name “;
$body = “Hi, \nThis is a test mail from $from_name .”;
$subject = “Test mail from $from_name”;
$to = “myotheremail@gmail.com”;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo “success!”;
} else {
echo “fail
I’m not sure what your problem is. Try printing your variables on the screen as debug at various points to ensure they are what you think they should be.
Posted 20 Jan 2010 at 10:00 pm ¶I am running XAMPP on vista and followed your instructions carefully. My example ini file under sendmail/xampp/xampp didn’t look like a proper ini file but more like what salang has posted here. I used a modified copy of your ini file and sendmail was complaining about the syntax of the ini file at line 1. After some time and a lot of frustration I replaced my sendmail.exe with a fresh download from their website at http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ and now it works like a charm. Seems some versions of XAMPP are bundled with a sendmail that expects the ini file in some other weird format. Hope someone finds this useful.
Posted 03 Feb 2010 at 5:35 am ¶Thanks! I’m sure visitors will find this information useful.
Posted 03 Feb 2010 at 7:19 am ¶Thank you for your any comments. I did what you said and still did not receive my confirmation email. I am using XAMPP version 1.7.2. My sendmail.ini is like follow, I did what you told us at PHP.ini and restart Apache :
Posted 11 Feb 2010 at 2:17 pm ¶; configuration for fake sendmail
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.telus.net
smtp_port=465
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
default_domain=brettshaffer.com
error_logfile=error.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
auth_username=xxxx@telus.net
auth_password=xxxx
Hello!
I have a problem:
- i get the sended email but i have a 5-8 seconds delay before the email is send…on localhost(the localhost webpage is hold for 5-8 seconds)!
i use xampp 1.7.3 on windows xp sp3
Could somebody help me?
Posted 13 Feb 2010 at 8:01 pm ¶Thank you
So the email is sent, but you are unhappy with the speed / duration taken to send the email? It probably has to do with either your web server and/or your SMTP server.
Posted 17 Feb 2010 at 9:37 pm ¶I get error like this:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 571 info@ubzrs.org prohibited. We do not relay in C:\xampp\htdocs\rapid\mail.php on line 6 , anyone know what this mean?
Posted 24 Feb 2010 at 12:48 pm ¶I’m getting the following error when I try to launch a php file that performs an email:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 SMTP authentication is required. in C:\xampp\htdocs\contact_parse.php on line 35
return_msg=Thanks , your message has been sent.
No email has been received btw.
Posted 25 Feb 2010 at 9:48 am ¶Hi:
I have XAMPP running on my IBM Netvista (P4); it works well and I am very pleased with it. I have a PERL program that uses SENDMAIL which works on my Network Solutions hosting service. I’m importing it to XAMPP.
The program opens SENDMAIL with the following code:
my $sendmail = “/usr/sbin/sendmail -t”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;
and prints the email document with lines like:
print SENDMAIL $from;
print SENDMAIL $send_to; #etc.
I believe I need to modify the PERL open statement. I have tried:
$sendmail = “C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;
but had no luck. Also, I think I need an .ini file. I tried the following file:
C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini
with this as the file contents:
c:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail
smtp_server=smtp.bankmanasseh.com
smtp_port=30
default_domain=bankmanasseh.com
error_logfile=error.log
auth_username=********@bankmanasseh.com
auth_password=*******
(bankmanasseh.com is my Network Solutions hosetd URL.) It still doesn’t work. I got no errors, no error log, and no email was sent. Can you help me?
Signed: Judd Rogers Watts
Posted 02 Mar 2010 at 9:53 pm ¶Owner of Manasseh
OMG I love you! I have been banging my head against a brick wall for weeks trying to get XAMPP working to send mail. I have read through so many pages and not found a clear, simple explanation. I cannot thank you enough for posting this information.
Posted 16 Mar 2010 at 11:30 am ¶Glad you got it working
Posted 23 Mar 2010 at 12:18 pm ¶Hello,
First off, I would strongly advise against posting your username and password for anything online. I have inserted asterisks in place for your protection, however, I would recommend you change your password immediately.
Second, I wrote this post a while ago and have since moved away from XAMPP and windows, so this just isn’t fresh enough in my mind to determine what is wrong. I would suggest emailing the author of the script or posting on the XAMPP forums.
Good luck.
Posted 23 Mar 2010 at 12:22 pm ¶Hey, thank you. For the last few days, I have been stressed from not being able to configure the mail function. Now, you provided a solution that works. No more stress meds.
Thank you
Posted 07 Apr 2010 at 9:16 pm ¶smtp_port=465
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
My sendmail.ini does not have these lines!!!!!!!!
Posted 13 Apr 2010 at 6:31 pm ¶Have you tried putting them in?
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Posted 22 Apr 2010 at 11:31 pm ¶it isn
Posted 26 May 2010 at 4:10 am ¶I am running 5 websites on my server. How can I configure sendmail.ini.
Posted 30 May 2010 at 9:39 am ¶Hello,
I configured my localhost like your instructions and my site is returning the message that the e-mail was sent, but I don’t receiving anything in my Gmail. Do you know what is happening?
Thank you,
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Posted 22 Jun 2010 at 8:23 pm ¶hi i m usuing apache server to run php i want to send SMTP mail to localhost ,how ?plz plz reply
thnks in advance
Posted 23 Jun 2010 at 6:18 am ¶Try this solution
Posted 07 Jan 2011 at 7:29 am ¶http://bigistheboss.blogspot.com/2011/01/xampp-apache-and-smtp.html
Fantastic!
I needed the SSL because I wanted to use gmail as my SMTP server.
I found that I was able to download the newest version of sendmail.exe from the makers at http://www.glob.com.au/sendmail/ which contained the .dlls and worked like a charm!
Thanks Brett for the help. This was definitely not an easy one to track down!
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 at 11:20 pm ¶Hi I went through all of your instructions and the mail is sent fine (sending back to myself). However I never receive it. I looked at the error log and get this message.
Posted 25 Jan 2012 at 4:20 pm ¶The message could not be sent because your e-mail program needs to identify itself to the sending mail server. Please see http://support.frontiernet.net/smtp for instructions on how to correct this setting in your e-mail program. (74-34-127-198.dr02.elko.nv.frontiernet.net[74.34.127.198] to )
12/01/25 12:18:10 ** Disconnecting from mail.frontiernet.net:25
I use MS Outlook and it works fine sending email from that. I went to the support.frontiernet and all it tells you is to select your email program your running and then takes you through the setup, which I already know about. I gives no clue on what is being sent to identify whatever email program your using. Any ideas?
Sorry forgot to tell you I’m running Xampp with Apache server, mysql and also have Mercury mail which I know nothing about. I’ve turned it on to see if that would make a difference, but no change, so running with it off.
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