php - Sendmail folder does not exist in xampp directory?

Question

I am trying to send email from localhost but somehow mail is not being send to any email address. I am trying to configure email from localhost and found some solution which are pointing me to configure with sendemail server which is xamppsendmailsendmail.exe. My problem is that I can not found sendmail folder in my xampp directory. So can not configure sendmail.

I am using xampp v3.2.1

Can please anyone tell me that why I don't have sendmail folder in xampp dir?

Answer 1

You must have SMTP Server, so you can send mails
Alternative solutions is to use externals one, like gmail for example

First you should have a valid gmail credetials, after that go to php.ini and configure it as follow :

[mail function]
SMTP      = ssl://smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 465
username  = YOUR_GOOGLE_USERNAME
password  = YOUR_GOOGLE_PASSWORD

Restart your web server and try with the classic php mail() function

Here is my yml SMTP Server configuration that i have used for a symfony project :

parameters:
    mailer_transport: gmail
    mailer_host     : 127.0.0.1
    mailer_user     : anis.halayem@gmail.com
    mailer_password : ***my_gmail_password_secret***
    locale          : en

You can setup your own local SMTP Server local SMTP Server

__EDIT__

Try with PHPMailer : PHPMailer - A full-featured email creation
And the good thing with it, that it will let you debug what is causing troubles with sending mails using gmail smtp server

First thing : are you behind proxy ? if it's the case, you have to configure the HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY environment variables
You can find useful documentations here and here

Now, you can create a php test script that you can launch directly via commands line or using a web server

<?php
require_once    ('PHPMailer-master/class.phpmailer.php');
require_once    ('PHPMailer-master/class.smtp.php');

$mail               = new PHPMailer();
$body               = "<h1> Sending HTML Mails using gmail</h1><p>it's great !!</p>";
$mail->IsSMTP();                                        // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug    = 1;                                // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth     = true;                             // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure   = "tls";                            // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host         = "smtp.gmail.com";                 // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port         = 587;                              // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

$mail->Username     = "YOUR_GMAIL_ACCOUNT"  ;           // GMAIL username
$mail->Password     = 'YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD' ;           // GMAIL password

$mail->SetFrom('VALID_USER@gmail.com', 'Anis Halayem');
$mail->Subject    = "Test Send Mails";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "VALID_USER@gmail.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "USER NAME");

// $mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");        // attachment
// $mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif");   // attachment

if(!$mail->Send()) {
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} 
else {
    echo "Message sent!";
}