SMTP CONFIGURATION

aldeemativo

Hey, can someone help me how to configure SMTP so that I can be able to send email in php and use the mail function. I find hard times trying to configure the SMTP in php.ini file located at: C://xampp/php/php.ini. Is this the correct path? Using this path, I assign new value to SMTP from the php.ini file to SMTP = mail.google.com, smtp_port = 25, but still doesn't work! HELP ME PLEASE. THANKS

dagon

gmail does not use port 25

smtp_port = 465

aldeemativo

Thanks dagon,
But although I have changed the values in the php.ini file ; from SMTP = localhost to SMTP = mail.google.com and smtp_port = 465, I still have this error message:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "mail.google.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 8.

Where should I really place this php.ini file?

bradgrafelman

Does GMail allow unsecure, unauthenticated traffic? I didn't think they did, in which case you can't use the internal mail() command (since it supports neither SSL connections nor SMTP authentication).

Instead, you'll have to look into using a 3rd party class (such as PHPMailer, XPertMaailer, a PEAR package, etc. etc.) to send e-mail through Google's servers.

aldeemativo

how about if I will just simply send email to another sites which do not have that strict authentication for emails, I am just eager to know how to configure the SMTP. I had also tried this on my code: ini_set("SMTP", "<smtp server>"); and ini_set("smtp_port", "25"); - but still does'nt work.