I have been doing this for hours and can't get it to work, many comments in the tutorial said it works like a charm but I can't really make this work.
I have done all the steps here http://blog.techwheels.net/send-email-from-localhost-wamp-server-using-sendmail/ and read all the comments with problems other users encountered and also used the solutions replied.
What I see on the apache error log is this
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:47 2012] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4120
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:47 2012] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:48 2012] [notice] Child 4120: Child process is running
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:48 2012] [notice] Child 4120: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:48 2012] [notice] Child 4120: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:48 2012] [notice] Child 4120: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Nov 27 05:19:48 2012] [notice] Child 4120: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
I also have tried it on my other computer and it has the same error log. I have disabled my firewall and also critically followed the steps on the tutorial.
Sorry for the previous answer. Thanks everyone for your suggestions to improve my answer. Here is my answer: The phpmailer has a file called class.phpmailer.php. Then in the function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body)
the code goes as follows:
global $error;
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = 'gmailusername';
$mail->Password = 'gmailpassword';
$mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->IsHTML(True);
$mail->Body=$body;
//$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AddAddress($to);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
$error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo;
return false;
} else {
$error = 'Message sent!';
return true;
}
Then just call the function where ever you want as: smtpmailer($to, $from, $headers, $subject, $message);
Oh and prior to this make sure php_openssl extension is enabled.
I hope this answer of mine was helpful. :)