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You can send mail from localhost with sendmail package , sendmail package is inbuild in XAMPP.
So if you are using XAMPP then you can easily send mail from localhost.

for example you can configure C:xamppphpphp.ini and c:xamppsendmailsendmail.ini for gmail to send mail.

in C:xamppphpphp.ini find extension=php_openssl.dll and remove the semicolon from the beginning of that line to make SSL working for gmail for localhost.

in php.ini file find [mail function] and change

SMTP=smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port=587

sendmail_from = my-gmail-id@gmail.com

sendmail_path = ""C:xamppsendmailsendmail.exe" -t"

Now Open C:xamppsendmailsendmail.ini. Replace all the existing code in sendmail.ini with following code

[sendmail]



smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port=587

error_logfile=error.log

debug_logfile=debug.log

auth_username=my-gmail-id@gmail.com

auth_password=my-gmail-password

force_sender=my-gmail-id@gmail.com

Now you have done!! create php file with mail function and send mail from localhost.

PS: don't forgot to replace my-gmail-id and my-gmail-password in above code.
Also, don't forget to remove duplicate keys if you copied settings from above. For example comment following line if there is another sendmail_path : sendmail_path="C:xamppmailtodiskmailtodisk.exe" in the php.ini file

Also remember to restart the server using the XAMMP control panel so the changes take effect.

For gmail please check https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255 to allow access from less secure apps.

To send email on Linux (with sendmail package) through Gmail from
localhost please check PHP+Ubuntu Send email using gmail form
localhost.

In XAMPP v3.2.1 for testing purposes you can see the emails that the XAMPP sends in XAMPP/mailoutput. In my case on Windows 8 this did not require any additional configuration and was a simple solution to testing email

Its very simple to send emails on localhost or local server

Note: I am using the test mail server software on Windows 7 64bit with Xampp installed

Just download test mail server tool and install according to the instruction given on its website Test Mail Server Tool

Now you need to change only two lines under php.ini file

1. Find [mail function] and remove semi colon which is before ;smtp = localhost
   


2. Put the semi colon before sendmail_path = "C:xamppmailtodiskmailtodisk.exe"
   

You don't need to change anything else, but if you still not getting emails than check for the SMTP port, the port number must be same.

The above method is for default settings provided by the Xampp software.

You have to configure SMTP on your server. You can use G Suite SMTP by Google for free:

<?php



$mail = new PHPMailer(true);



// Send mail using Gmail

if($send_using_gmail){

    $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

    $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication

    $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier

    $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server

    $mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

    $mail->Username = "your-gmail-account@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username

    $mail->Password = "your-gmail-password"; // GMAIL password

}



// Typical mail data

$mail->AddAddress($email, $name);

$mail->SetFrom($email_from, $name_from);

$mail->Subject = "My Subject";

$mail->Body = "Mail contents";



try{

    $mail->Send();

    echo "Success!";

} catch(Exception $e){

    // Something went bad

    echo "Fail :(";

}



?>

Read more about PHPMailer here.

You can test send mail in Your PC without Internet

you should use Papercut this simple application to test send mail. and you don't need to configure anything.

Just run it and try test send mail:

test_sendmail.php

<?php

$to = "somebody@example.com";

$subject = "My subject";

$txt = "Hello world!";

$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com" . "rn" .

"CC: somebodyelse@example.com";



mail($to,$subject,$txt,$headers);

?>

and you will see this:

I hope you will have a good day.
you can find me on Youtube for more tutorial Piseth Sok

Cheer!

For people on windows 8 if you want to do this i would really recommend reading this tutorial i found: http://yogeshchaugule.com/blog/2013/configure-sendmail-wamp

Its not written by me but after slamming my head into a concrete wall for 2,5 hours not getting this to work with the weirdest errors like:

• Connection timed out.


• Connection Closed Gracefully.

I finally found that tutorial were upon installation of https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html and the configuration of Stunnel. It finally worked.

You have to define an SMTP server and a port for this. All except like sending mails from live hosts.

This is a useful link regarding this.

NB: The port should be unused. Please take care that, Some
applications like Skype uses the default ports and there by prevents
sending mail.

just spent over an hour trying to make this work. for everybody having the same trouble with all the suggestions posted not working: you have to restart Apache in your XAMPP inrerface! just restarting XAMPP wont work!!

If you have an installed copy of xampp latest copy then check this link for complete documentation of sending emails through xampp. You must enable apache before you try to access the below link

http://localhost/dashboard/docs/send-mail.html