Re: mail() + localhost

Hello, on 07/01/2010 10:09 AM Shreyas Agasthya said the following: > PHP'ers, > > I am sure this would have been asked a zillion times but I take this as my > turn to get some help. I hate to ask such rhetorical questions but quite > couldn't understand how to tweak this. > > All I am trying to do is send a mail from my localhost to my Gmail ID. I > read stuff about how the SMTP port should be accessible; should be open et > al. My set-up is very simple: You cannot use the mail() function because it does not support authentication. You need to use some other component that supports SMTP authentication. I use the MIME message class along with a SMTP class. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage You may want to read this article to learn how to set it right to send messages via Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/package/9/post/1-Sending-email-using-SMTP-servers-of-Gmail-Hotmail-or-Yahoo-with-PHP.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/