Comments on: How To: PHP Sendmail and XAMPP on Windows

By: Judd Rogers Watts

Judd Rogers Watts — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:53:57 +0000

Hi:
I have XAMPP running on my IBM Netvista (P4); it works well and I am very pleased with it. I have a PERL program that uses SENDMAIL which works on my Network Solutions hosting service. I’m importing it to XAMPP.

The program opens SENDMAIL with the following code:

my $sendmail = “/usr/sbin/sendmail -t”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;

and prints the email document with lines like:

print SENDMAIL $from;
print SENDMAIL $send_to; #etc.

I believe I need to modify the PERL open statement. I have tried:

$sendmail = “C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;

but had no luck. Also, I think I need an .ini file. I tried the following file:

C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini

with this as the file contents:

c:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail
smtp_server=smtp.bankmanasseh.com
smtp_port=30
default_domain=bankmanasseh.com
error_logfile=error.log
auth_username=manasseh@bankmanasseh.com
auth_password=qA10aPg25r

(bankmanasseh.com is my Network Solutions hosetd URL.) It still doesn’t work. I got no errors, no error log, and no email was sent. Can you help me?

Signed: Judd Rogers Watts
Owner of Manasseh

By: J

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:48:33 +0000

I’m getting the following error when I try to launch a php file that performs an email:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 SMTP authentication is required. in C:\xampp\htdocs\contact_parse.php on line 35
return_msg=Thanks , your message has been sent.

No email has been received btw.

By: Take

Take — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:33 +0000

I get error like this:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 571 info@ubzrs.org prohibited. We do not relay in C:\xampp\htdocs\rapid\mail.php on line 6 , anyone know what this mean?

By: brett

brett — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:37:07 +0000

So the email is sent, but you are unhappy with the speed / duration taken to send the email? It probably has to do with either your web server and/or your SMTP server.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:01:48 +0000

Hello!

I have a problem:
- i get the sended email but i have a 5-8 seconds delay before the email is send…on localhost(the localhost webpage is hold for 5-8 seconds)!

i use xampp 1.7.3 on windows xp sp3

Could somebody help me?
Thank you

By: Ting

Ting — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:50 +0000

Thank you for your any comments. I did what you said and still did not receive my confirmation email. I am using XAMPP version 1.7.2. My sendmail.ini is like follow, I did what you told us at PHP.ini and restart Apache :
; configuration for fake sendmail
[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.telus.net
smtp_port=465
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
default_domain=brettshaffer.com
error_logfile=error.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
auth_username=xxxx@telus.net
auth_password=xxxx

By: brett

brett — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:19:05 +0000

Thanks! I’m sure visitors will find this information useful.

By: alexg

alexg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:35:04 +0000

I am running XAMPP on vista and followed your instructions carefully. My example ini file under sendmail/xampp/xampp didn’t look like a proper ini file but more like what salang has posted here. I used a modified copy of your ini file and sendmail was complaining about the syntax of the ini file at line 1. After some time and a lot of frustration I replaced my sendmail.exe with a fresh download from their website at http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ and now it works like a charm. Seems some versions of XAMPP are bundled with a sendmail that expects the ini file in some other weird format. Hope someone finds this useful.

By: brett

brett — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:00:48 +0000

I’m not sure what your problem is. Try printing your variables on the screen as debug at various points to ensure they are what you think they should be.

By: viduph

viduph — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:35:02 +0000

Could you please help me? Here are the steps I followed:
1. Modify php\php.ini (My XAMPP version is 1.7.1 and I cannot find apache\bin\php.ini)
2. Modify sendmail\sendmail.ini
3. Download sendmail_ssl.zip file (this step is done after I did not get success without it)
4. Restart Apache
5. Run send mail script

But all I get is no response, no error log file is created.
Here is the script to send email:

$from_name = “my name”;
$from_email = “myemail@gmail.com”;
$headers = “From: $from_name “;
$body = “Hi, \nThis is a test mail from $from_name .”;
$subject = “Test mail from $from_name”;
$to = “myotheremail@gmail.com”;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo “success!”;
} else {
echo “fail…”;
}
It prints “success!” on the screen but I don’t get any email in my gmail mail box.
I then use process monitor to see if sendmail.exe works (http://glob.com.au/sendmail/help/), it says success.
I don’t know what happens here.