SMTP send mail fails and gives error on php page

niceguysan

Hi I am getting this error while i am submitting this to PHP page..

the error is here

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:\xampp\htdocs\send_comments.php on line 10

before posting i researched online on Google and ther are so many ppl seems to have same error.. but following from ther i cant get solution to my problem

the PHP.ini file has this seeting

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

and i am on windows..

can anyone help me out

porr favour...

dagon

so you have a mail server on the same machine your running php?

niceguysan

well i installed XAMPP and right after that i started practicing.. on the way when i was on this chapter , i got into this problem

i am not sure if it s installed or not but tell me how can i check and install if its not ?

dagon

XAMPP does not come with a mail server, probably easiest to use an external one like your isp or gmail

niceguysan

i tried smtp.gmail.com instead of localhost but it gave me a strange error of 503 so i changed the settings back... how and what mail server should i instal as i want to do on my own computer..

dagon

I hvae never installed a mail server on windows, seems un necessary for developing locally, i assume you not hosting the final product locally, but im sure google will tell you how.