Send email from localhost running XAMMP in PHP using GMAIL mail server

Question

I try to send an email from localhost to my yahoo email account using php mail() function, the return says I successfully send the email but I did not get any email. I've been reading and trying many so called 'simple way' to send email but the result are disappointing, none of them work for me. Below are the code, the configurations and the error message. Can someone enlighten me with this? Thanks.

php code

<?php $to      = '[email protected]'; $subject = 'Fake sendmail test'; $message = 'If we can read this, it means that our fake Sendmail setup works!'; $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .            'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .            'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();  if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {     echo 'Email sent successfully!'; } else {     die('Failure: Email was not sent!'); } ?> 

Configuration for php.ini (I'm using gmail mail server)

SMTP =smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port =587
sendmail_from = [email protected]
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

Configuration for sendmail.ini

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
smtp_ssl=tls
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
[email protected]
auth_password=mypassword
[email protected]

error message in sendmail error log with port 587

13/10/02 13:36:41 : Must issue a STARTTLS command first. k4sm129639pbd.11 - gsmtp

Answer 1

Here's the link that gives me the answer:

[Install] the "fake sendmail for windows". If you are not using XAMPP you can download it here: http://glob.com.au/sendmail/sendmail.zip

[Modify] the php.ini file to use it (commented out the other lines):  [mail function] ; For Win32 only. ; SMTP = smtp.gmail.com ; smtp_port = 25  ; For Win32 only. ; sendmail_from = <e-mail username>@gmail.com  ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t" 

(ignore the "Unix only" bit, since we actually are using sendmail)

You then have to configure the "sendmail.ini" file in the directory where sendmail was installed:

[sendmail]  smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com smtp_port=25 error_logfile=error.log debug_logfile=debug.log auth_username=<username> auth_password=<password> force_sender=<e-mail username>@gmail.com 

To access a Gmail account protected by 2-factor verification, you will need to create an application-specific password. (source)