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Carlos Bonilla
Asked: 2020-06-24 17:14:50 +0800 CST 2020-06-24 17:14:50 +0800 CST

How to send a form by email? (using xampp)

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it gives me this error

Warning: 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:\xampp\htdocs\LF\html\suggestions .php online 17

<?php
  if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
            $nombre=$_POST['name'];
                $correo=$_POST['email'];
                $mensaje=$_POST['mensaje'];
  $enviar = '[email protected]';
$asunto = 'Sugerencia';
$header = 'From: ' . $correo;
$msjCorreo = "Nombre: $nombre\n E-Mail: $correo\n Mensaje:\n $mensaje";

    if (mail($enviar, $asunto, $msjCorreo, $header)){
    echo "<script language='javascript'>
alert('Mensaje enviado, muchas gracias.');
window.history.go(-1);

</script>";
} else {
echo 'Falló el envio';
}
}

?>`
php

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    how to configure xampp to send mail from a localhost

    How to configure xampp to send emails from a localhost To be able to send emails from localhost it is necessary to configure the php.ini and sendmail.ini with an SMTP account to manage emails. The first is to enter the php.ini and look for the line [mail function] here we will comment sendmail_path by entering the path where our sendmail is installed, for my case it would stay like this.

    [mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
; SMTP = localhost
; smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost

; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program filesE:\xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.  
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
sendmail_path = "\"E:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the E:\xampp\mailoutput folder
;sendmail_path="E:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header=Off

; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
mail.log = "E:\xampp\php\logs\php_mail.log"

    the second we enter the sendmail.ini that we could find where our xampp server was installed.

    And we should be left with something like the following; [email protected]

    • auth_password=mypassword
    • smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
    • smtp_port=587
    • smtp_ssl=auto

    With this we should be able to send emails from our localhost, I hope it will be useful to you.

    Also here is an identical question but on stackoverflow in English:

    The question

    tutorial source

    Although if you are testing your own or business project, I would recommend a free server like hostinger.

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