CONFIGURING APACHE TO SEND MAIL

[VEINTYUNICO]

OK! IT'S FINALLY WORKING! THANKS A LOT MAN! REALLY.

NOW I GOT TO FIGURE WHERE I CONFIGURE "FROM:..." THO SOW MY EMAIL ADRESS.

BUT IT'S OK MAN. THANKS REALLY!

[VEINTYUNICO]

Where I configure my recipient's adress?
That's the error that i receive in error.log

ok. Thanks

[yitwail]

Wiedmann, thanks for great info; helped to get my config working. only difficulty was, i have 3 copies of php.ini laying around, and the third one i changed is the one that was being used.

[Sharley]

Wiedmann, thanks for great info; helped to get my config working. only difficulty was, i have 3 copies of php.ini laying around, and the third one i changed is the one that was being used...

To find out which php.ini file is being used go to http://localhost and in the left menu of the Welcome page click on phpinfo() then look for this line which will give the answer:
Loaded Configuration File

It would normally be C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
The above path depends on your XAMPP installation.

[yitwail]

To find out which php.ini file is being used go to http://localhost and in the left menu of the Welcome page click on phpinfo() then look for this line which will give the answer:
Loaded Configuration File

It would normally be C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
The above path depends on your XAMPP installation.

that's how i found the one i needed to change, which was C:\php\php.ini in my case. i suspect i have 2 php installations, because i installed php prior to installing xampp, but at this point nothing's broke so i'm not fixing to fix it anytime soon (unless i find out this is a big no-no)

[madmax765]

i had same trouble, i had mine set at smtp_port=465 too, And it would not work, canged it to 25, And it dose. Why i don't know, Cause my email acount setting it set for port 465

Now i can get mails by my web site contack page, but still cant seem to get my phpbb 3 forum to send emails, I know in it "E-mail function name:
The e-mail function used to send mails through PHP. "
And its set to mail

I konw i had to change this in php.ini file
sendmail_path = "C:\Xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

[Sharley]

Did you configure the C:\Xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini file after uncommenting that line in the php.ini file?

Does Xampp start with an upper case letter?

Remember that all things XAMPP are case sensitive

Do you have to tell your forum mail script to use sendmail perhaps?

This post may have some useful info too:
http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=102182#p102182

BTW you should only use one method not both - if you use sendmail then comment out the smtp part in the php.ini file and vise versa.

More here:
http://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:mailconfig

And here:
Configuring PHP under Windows to use Gmail or External SMTP Server [SSL]