title: Sending email from localhost server xampp/sendmail
body: <p>I have set up a PHP site that will be locally hosted. One function of this is to send an email with items from a shopping cart. When hosted online (for testing) the email() function worked perfectly sending email. </p>
  
  <p>I'm now transferring the site to a local machine, and am unable to send email. </p>
  
  <p>Originally the emails came from servername@hostname.co.uk which worked well, although I'd happily set up a gmail or similar to handle the sending. </p>
  
  <p>I've read a few tutorials about setting things up and have firstly tried using sendmail and a gmail address. </p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if there's something simple I've missed in setting up the ini files. </p>
  
  <p>I edited my php.ini file as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[mail function]
   XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
   SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
   smtp_port = 587
  
   For Win32 only.
   http://php.net/sendmail-from
  sendmail_from = shipimageemail@gmail.com
  
  ; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program filesC:\xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
  ; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.  
  ; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
  sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
  
  ; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the C:\xampp\mailoutput folder
  ;sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"
  
  ; 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\php\logs\php_mail.log"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then my sendmail.ini file as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[sendmail]
  
  smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
  smtp_port=587
  error_logfile=error.log
  debug_logfile=debug.log
  auth_username=shipimageemail@gmail.com
  auth_password=password
  force_sender=shipimageemail@gmail.com
  </code></pre>