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I am on my localhost server. I am using this code below, but I never received the email.
<?php
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
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Generally, the email sending feature is not working with the PHP built-in functions in localhost. If the web application is built with PHP, the mail() function is used to send email from the script using PHP. But the PHP mail() function will not work in localhost.
Make sure the mail() function is called correctly The mail function takes three required parameters and optionally a fourth and fifth one. If your call to mail() does not have at least three parameters it will fail.
to check if it is sending mail as intended; <? php $email = "[email protected]"; $subject = "Email Test"; $message = "this is a mail testing email function on server"; $sendMail = mail($email, $subject, $message); if($sendMail) { echo "Email Sent Successfully"; } else { echo "Mail Failed"; } ?>
I know its kinda late...
check if your localhost is configured to send email
On ubuntu terminal try executing following command
# apt-get install sendmail
Make sure that the mailserver is configured correctly in the php.ini file.
comment out these lines like this in php.ini file and restart the Apache server.
/*[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
; SMTP = localhost
; smtp_port = 25
*/
/*; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost
*/
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