Enable E-mail In PHP – Win

Table of content

• What Will You Need?
• Set Up Sendmail
• Change php.ini
• Conclusion

This will be a quick tutorial that will show you how to enable e-mail function in PHP on Windows.

What Will You Need? Top

There are few things you need to get before you can continue.

• G-Mail account (just create one account like sendmail@gmail.com that you’ll use)
• sendmail for windows (download sendmail.zip and sendmail-SSL.zip)

Set Up Sendmail Top

After you’ve downloaded sendmail.zip and sendmail-SSL.zip, extract both zip files into same folder and place it somewhere (in my example, location is C:\Program Files\wamp\bin\sendmail). After that open sendmail.ini and change settings like this.

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port=587

smtp_ssl=tls

auth_username=(account addres that you created)

auth_password=(password of that account)

Change php.ini Top

Open php.ini and find mail function section. There you’ll comment lines that contain SMTP and smtp_port. Then you’ll uncomment line that has sendmail_path and add path to sendmail.exe so you’ll have something like this.

;SMTP = smtp.example.com

;smtp_port = 25

sendmail_path = "C:\Program Files\wamp\bin\sendmail\sendmail.exe"

Conclusion Top

This is a simple way to enable PHP’s mail() function on Windows. I tested this method on Windows 7 but it should work also on XP and Vista. Thank you for reading.

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