Help me configure mail function in XAMP

[nani_nisha06]

Originally Posted by hinch

PHP Code:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

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


Change SMTP= to your isp's mail server change send from to whatever you like.

restart apache/services for xmpp

as noted in the comments above and in my previous post its all well documented on the php.net website (even in your native language!)

Hinch,


I have configured my gmail account for these.

PHP Code:

[mail function]
 For Win32 only.
 http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
 http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 587

 For Win32 only.
 http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = testnanitestmail@gmail.com 


and I see crash report in the send mail folder....

[nani_nisha06]

Guys,

Don't know some how these issue has been solved using below settings.


If any still stuck like me can check the configurations as below & have success.....

This is what worked for me Hopefully no one else will burn oil to figure this out like i did.

Here is my sendmail.ini

[sendmail]

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=25
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=myemail@gmail.com
auth_password=yourgmailpassword
force_sender=myemail@gmail.com

php/php.ini ----basically comment everything out except sendmail_path & mail.add_x_header

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 25

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

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; 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 = "C:\xampp\apache\logs\php_mail.log"

This worked for me after i updated the sendmail files (the old ones dont support smtp)

go to http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ and grab the latest sendmail zip file
unzip to desktop and copy the files into your \xampp\sendmail folder replacing everything that was there.EVERYTHING!
Now open up sendmail.ini and copy paste what i showed above.(remove everything in that file first or just comment everything out!)
NOTE: you dont need Mercury servers started for this.
I was making a password recovery php on localhost when i encountered this problem. I needed to send users their password. - your php looks okey

Please restart your Apache one have above settings......

[tangoforce]

I've never had any luck using PHPs SMTP support via the php.ini file. I never got it working after many trials.

Instead, I use fakesendmail (google it). It allows you to use the mail() function (or a class like PHPMailer) but instead it will act as an SMTP client and send emails through your SMTP account.

It's very good, I've been using it for years now and have no trouble with it.

[hinch]

Originally Posted by tangoforce

I've never had any luck using PHPs SMTP support via the php.ini file. I never got it working after many trials.

Instead, I use fakesendmail (google it). It allows you to use the mail() function (or a class like PHPMailer) but instead it will act as an SMTP client and send emails through your SMTP account.

It's very good, I've been using it for years now and have no trouble with it.

thats why i use swiftmail because its write once use anywhere library just tell it to use the smtp transport and it works the same on every server windows or unix based.

using the windows based sendmail is not really a brilliant idea.

[tangoforce]

Originally Posted by hinch

thats why i use swiftmail because its write once use anywhere library just tell it to use the smtp transport and it works the same on every server windows or unix based.

How so? You can't run a windows .exe on linux (unless under wine or a virtual machine) and vice versa. Or do you know something I don't? - do tell!!!

Originally Posted by hinch

using the windows based sendmail is not really a brilliant idea.

Whys that then? It works very well! Any version of sendmail is just a SMTP client anyway (just like outlook express when sending) so I see no reason not to use it. IIRC, fakesendmail also comes with the delphi source code so that you can modify it too.

[hinch]

Originally Posted by tangoforce

How so? You can't run a windows .exe on linux (unless under wine or a virtual machine) and vice versa. Or do you know something I don't? - do tell!!!

you can but relying on external applications as bridge layers adds an extra level of potential issues. say for example your windows xxx layer service crashes do you have ways of monitoring if its active or not? if not how many days was it before you realised your web app wasn't sending emails.

There's a myriad of other reasons too. In some circumstances ie: clustered environments you may rely heavily on external abstraction or data interface layers (memcached is one you may be familiar with) however in most cases its simply not required.

In this specific instance neither fakemail nor the windows compilation of sendmail have any for of monitoring short of you looking on the actual machine seeing if its still running (sendmail even more so since its not even in its native environment)

Originally Posted by tangoforce

Whys that then? It works very well! Any version of sendmail is just a SMTP client anyway (just like outlook express when sending) so I see no reason not to use it. IIRC, fakesendmail also comes with the delphi source code so that you can modify it too.

send mail is evil even in its native environment not only for stability but also for configuration. the windows binary is just a cross platform compile but its older than the current live upstream, missing features and runs a generic config. You're far better being able to reference either the IIS internal SMTP server or a proper *nix based smtp server thats configured correctly. There's also a whole list of reasons why not to use sendmail even when in a unix environment but thats a little out of scope of this question.

Also sendmail isnt an SMTP client at all! its an SMTP server nothing like outlook express when sending. Outlook express is simply a client which connects to a sendmail server for sending/routing.

[tangoforce]

Originally Posted by hinch

In this specific instance neither fakemail nor the windows compilation of sendmail have any for of monitoring short of you looking on the actual machine seeing if its still running (sendmail even more so since its not even in its native environment)

Well fakesendmail (which is what I use) doesn't need monitoring because it isn't a service as such. It's simply an executable that PHP executes when the mail function is called. Having looked at the source for it I've seen no reference to the windows service manager and when using it it vanishes from the task manager as soon as the email is sent.

Originally Posted by hinch

You're far better being able to reference either the IIS internal SMTP server or a proper *nix based smtp server thats configured correctly.

Maybe so but if it works, it works - why try fixing it

Originally Posted by hinch

Also sendmail isnt an SMTP client at all! its an SMTP server nothing like outlook express when sending. Outlook express is simply a client which connects to a sendmail server for sending/routing.

What do you think any SMTP server does once it receives email that needs to go outbound elsewhere? - It connects to another SMTP server as a client. Servers can only connect to servers via the use of a client connection -the same as yahoo, gmail etc. I run my own self written SMTP server which has to handle incoming connections from sources such as yahoo and gmail which connect as clients using the SMTP protocol.

To be honest though, I think you're getting a bit confused with my initial recommendation which was to use FAKEsendmail to get the op going. On a windows host using xampp (designed for usb key usage) running a system service is probably over kill anyway just for sending the odd email so fakesendmail should do the job pretty well (does for me, I've been using it for years).

[hinch]

Originally Posted by tangoforce

What do you think any SMTP server does once it receives email that needs to go outbound elsewhere? - It connects to another SMTP server as a client. Servers can only connect to servers via the use of a client connection -the same as yahoo, gmail etc. I run my own self written SMTP server which has to handle incoming connections from sources such as yahoo and gmail which connect as clients using the SMTP protocol.

To be honest though, I think you're getting a bit confused with my initial recommendation which was to use FAKEsendmail to get the op going. On a windows host using xampp (designed for usb key usage) running a system service is probably over kill anyway just for sending the odd email so fakesendmail should do the job pretty well (does for me, I've been using it for years).

I know exactly what an SMTP server does you appear to be getting confused between client server and distribution/routing protocols though.
I'm not getting confused either with your recommendation however you are ignoring where the op says he resolved the issue using sendmail not your fakemail. Therefore he's running a windows compile of sendmail.
You are also ignoring the fact that neither of you are writing portable code when using either direct sendmail or fakemail wrapper as both methods are relying/expecting an underlying sendmail binary to be available for sending on as calling mail() in php calls /usr/sbin/sendmail etc (this is why other servers such as postfix still implement a sendmail wrapper to allow legacy stuff like php to send via it even when sendmail isn't installed)

Using a mail library (I only use swift as thats what i'm familiar with however there are others) and rather than calling the sendmail transport you rely on.
By using a mail library and a direct SMTP transport it means your code can use any SMTPd regardless of if its exim/sendmail/postfix/iis/whatever. It also means you can easily use an external/non local host send server which in production environments is often the case where all mail goes through a different server to to the websites running on. Doing it your way for example would mean if your front end web servers don't run some form of SMTP you couldn't send mail. which would mean you either rewriting your code or adding in traps initially to detect which environment your code is running in and changing the mail system accordingly. Both of which add overhead and are unrequired.

[tangoforce]

Originally Posted by hinch

I know exactly what an SMTP server does you appear to be getting confused between client server and distribution/routing protocols though.

We'll have to agree to differ. For reasons that you'll see below, I'm going to agree with my version and understanding of it.

Originally Posted by hinch

I'm not getting confused either with your recommendation however you are ignoring where the op says he resolved the issue using sendmail not your fakemail.

Actually, you're very wrong and yes you are very confused. Do you really think I don't recognise that ini file configuration that he quoted?

Look at this:


Note the url there in that picture.

Originally Posted by nani_nisha06

This worked for me after i updated the sendmail files (the old ones dont support smtp)

go to http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ and grab the latest sendmail zip file
unzip to desktop and copy the files into your \xampp\sendmail folder replacing everything that was there.EVERYTHING!

Please restart your Apache one have above settings......

Note the URL in that quote - it matches - nani_nisha IS using FAKEsendmail - The title of the search result in my google search screen capture makes that perfectly clear.

Let me re-quote this:

Originally Posted by hinch

I'm not getting confused ... the op says he resolved the issue using sendmail not your fakemail.

Yes you are confused because he did exactly that - solved it with FAKEsendmail. You claim you're not confused yet you still can't grasp the concept that it is called fakesendmail and refer to it again as fakemail.

Originally Posted by hinch

Therefore he's running a windows compile of sendmail.

No he isn't. He's running an equivalent of sendmail that works as a SMTP client.

Originally Posted by hinch

You are also ignoring the fact that neither of you are writing portable code when using either direct sendmail or fakemail wrapper as both methods are relying/expecting an underlying sendmail binary to be available for sending on as calling mail() in php calls /usr/sbin/sendmail etc (this is why other servers such as postfix still implement a sendmail wrapper to allow legacy stuff like php to send via it even when sendmail isn't installed)

I do agree with this however the reality is that most webservers these days have sendmail or equivalent installed. It's only some wamp setups that seem to scrimp on it sometimes.

However, i still disagree with you about sendmail / smtp. Sendmail is in general a SMTP client for its outgoing email. My own site uses sendmail and yes, I can see the live incoming SMTP connection from my SMTP servers live monitor.

Take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail

Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.

Note that I am not saying SMTP is its only method of communication - I'm aware that sendmail may have other uses (none of which interest me) however for general outgoing email, you need to use SMTP (even you know that because you keep harping on about using SMTP instead of sendmail).

Originally Posted by hinch

Using a mail library (I only use swift as thats what i'm familiar with however there are others) and rather than calling the sendmail transport you rely on.
By using a mail library and a direct SMTP transport it means your code can use any SMTPd regardless of if its exim/sendmail/postfix/iis/whatever. It also means you can easily use an external/non local host send server which in production environments is often the case where all mail goes through a different server to to the websites running on. Doing it your way for example would mean if your front end web servers don't run some form of SMTP you couldn't send mail. which would mean you either rewriting your code or adding in traps initially to detect which environment your code is running in and changing the mail system accordingly. Both of which add overhead and are unrequired.

I have no issue with this as you are correct however it's user preference IMO. Fake/sendmail makes it easy for a user to dive in and send out emails. As I mentioned above, it's rare for a server not to have it installed unless its a wamp setup and even then you can use fakesendmail as I've mentioned.