Send email from php

[slowwalk]

First, I don't even know where i've done wrong. I need to send email after submit a form. I already set up sendmail.exe. I tried to set up using localhost but failed then I tried using gmail, and still I cannot send email from my php. Can you please help.

This is from php file

<?php
 require_once "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t";

 $from = "Sender <[e-mail]>";
 $to = "Recipient <[e-mail]>";
 $subject = "Hi!";
 $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

 $host = "gmail.com";
 $username = "[e-mail]";
 $password = "xxx ";

 $headers = array ('From' => $from,
   'To' => $to,
   'Subject' => $subject);
 $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
   array ('host' => $host,
     'auth' => true
     'username' => $username,
     'password' => $password));

 $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

 if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
   echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  } else {
   echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
  }
 ?>

[bradgrafelman]

Er... well for starters, you should read the manual to find out what [man]require_once[/man] does, because attempting to require/include a binary executable file doesn't make any sense.

Second, what do you mean you "already setup sendmail.exe" ? No offense, but based on the above, I would hazard a guess as to say that you have no idea what "sendmail.exe" is supposed to do... ?

Third, you need to include/require the appropriate PEAR script (you did install PEAR and the required Mail package, right?) before you can use it in your code.

Finally, if you're using the SMTP method of the PEAR::Mail package, then there is no need for "sendmail.exe" at all.

[slowwalk]

I did not know how to use sendmail.exe but I read that I need it to send email.

I tried this one

<?php

$to = '[e-mail]';

$subject = 'Test email';

$message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my first mail.";

$headers = "From:[e-mail]\r\nReply-To: [e-mail]";

$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );

echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

but I get mail failed. What should I do to make sendmail.exe work?

This is my sendmail.ini:

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

; smtp port (normally 25)

smtp_port=587
; 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=gmail.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=[e-mail]
auth_password=xxx

; 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=gmail.com

; 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=