I have literally spent hours trying to set up mail on my localhost so that I can send test emails from Magento, and finally its working. So I thought I would share my solution in case it saves others wasted hours too 
Firstly I needed to download the most recent release of sendmail. This can be found here: http://glob.com.au/sendmail/. Once downloaded browse to c:/xampp/sendmail (assuming your installation is on your c:/ drive) and delete and replace with the newly downloaded files.
Then in c:/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.ini comment everything out but the following lines and modify to be your own email address and password.
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com smtp_port=25 error_logfile=error.log debug_logfile=debug.log auth_username=youremail@gmail.com auth_password=yourgmailpassword force_sender=youremail@gmail.com |
Then in c:/xampp/php/php.ini search for “mail” and comment out everything but sendmail_path and mail.add_x_header lines.
; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/smtp ;SMTP = localhost ; http://php.net/smtp-port ;smtp_port = 25 ; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/sendmail-from ;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ; http://php.net/sendmail-path sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t" ; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters ; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of ; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode. ;mail.force_extra_parameters = ; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename mail.add_x_header = Off ; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers ;mail.log = "C:\xampp\apache\logs\php_mail.log" |
Then restart Apache and it should work!!
To test you can place this script in your htdocs change the $to field and browse to it.
<?php
$to = "youremail@email.com";
$subject = "Test Email";
$message = "Testing mail is working";
if(mail($to,$subject,$message)){
echo "sent";
}else{
echo "failed";
}?> |
Thank you to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4948687/xampp-sendmail-using-gmail-account for pointing me in the right direction
