Can't send email from localhost using gmail id

Question

I'm using windows 7 and xampp 1.8(mercury mail is on) and trying to send email from localhost using gmail id. but its not working. heres my email.php :

<?php
$to="receiver.email@gmail.com";
$subject='the subject';
$message="dfdgh";
$headers='From:my.email@gmail.com'."\r\n".'Host:ssl://smtp.gmail.com'."\r\n".'Port:465'."\r\n".'Username:my.email@gmail.com'."\r\n".'Password:mypassword'."\r\n".'Reply-To:my.email@gmail.com'."\r\n".'X-Mailer:PHP/'.phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

and heres my localhost php smtp configuration that I changed

;SMTP = localhost
;smtp_port = 25
SMTP =ssl://smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 465
; For Win32 only.
;http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost
ssl://smtp.gmail.com
sendmail_from = my.email@gmail.com

I got no error message after I execute the code but didn't receive any email.

What wrong did I do ?

-Thanks.

there is 1 extra line (2nd last line) : `ssl://smtp.gmail.com` and you don't need to add Host, Port, Password in email header — Raptor, Apr 03 '13 at 03:24
@Kaii , sorry,I don't understand, could you plz make it clear ? — user1844626, Apr 03 '13 at 03:32
try to go your your xampp/mailoutput folder to check whether the mail is stuck there or in mercury/Queue folder — Jhonathan H., Apr 03 '13 at 03:34

Dipesh Parmar · Answer 1 · 2013-04-03T04:02:22.970

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Gmail SMTP has stopped working on 465 and SSL so use below configuration.

Before it was worked perfectly but now its working on below config.

SMTP =tls://smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 587
tls://smtp.gmail.com

Use 587 SMTP_PORT and use TLS.

and if its not working then replace SMTP = tls line to SMTP = aspmx.l.google.com

edited Apr 03 '13 at 04:02

answered Apr 03 '13 at 03:51

Dipesh Parmar

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@user1844626 have you restarted your services..? – Dipesh Parmar Apr 03 '13 at 04:00
@user1844626 take a look at here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14518902/smtp-server-local-send-mail-php/14519745#14519745 – Dipesh Parmar Apr 03 '13 at 04:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '13 at 04:32

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debug it first in

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

try to write down a condition to see if mail is sending

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo 'Success';
}
else{
echo 'Failed';
}

answered Apr 03 '13 at 04:32

Jhonathan H.

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