email - php mail function

Question

<?php
$sendto = "account@gmail.com";
$subject = "email confirmation"; // Subject 
$message = "the body of the email - this email is to confirm etc...";
# send the email 
mail($sendto, $subject, $message);
?>

this is the code that i wrote to test mail function on localhost. i have ran the script in browser for several times and still dun receive any email in my mail box.

Do I need any additional configurations?

thx in advance!

Answer 1

Basically is hard to send a mail from localhost to any mail providers. They have big restrictions on the incoming mails, and the simply mail() won't work.

You need to use an SMTP server. and define that server in php configuration

smtp = localhost  #(here should be your smtp server)
smtp_port = 25

if you don't have an SMTP server, try to pass all headers like in PHP examples:

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "
" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "
" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php