I changed the SMTP and SMTP Port but it still says Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25

Question

I am currently using xampp 1.7.0 and my php version is 5.2.8

I changed my php.ini file to:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 465

and my send_email.php file looks like:

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a test message.";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

But, it shows the following message:

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\NFL\send_email.php on line 15

Line number 15 is:

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

How can I resolve this issue?

Note: I also added a 5th parameter to the mail call to force the system to use the From Email Address, but it didn't worked!

Answer 1

I got the solution to my own question. The problem was:

At first I was changing the php.ini file from C:\xampp\php\

But, when I did

 echo phpinfo();
 die();

I found the loaded configuration file was:

C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini

So, I changed

SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

to

SMTP = smtp.wlink.com.np
smtp_port = 25

And it worked!