Send email from localhost to Gmail

Question

I am new to PHP & want to we send email from localhost to my gmail address.

I am using ubuntu 9.10 & have already installed libphp-phpmailer from Synaptic Package manager option.

I used:

$to      = "abc@gmail.com";
$subject = "Account Confirmation";
$headers = "From: xyz@gmail.com";
$message = "Testing";
$mail = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

if ($mail) {
    echo "Mail sent.";
} else {
   echo "Some Error occur.";
}

And it show Some Error occur.

Answer 1

I'm using sendmail services to intall

apt-get install sendmail

It makes your computer to be mail server and you can send wherever you want with domain that you want...

Answer 2

Welcome to SO.

assume under "localhost" you mean "windows".
you will need either to install your own mail server or to use some SMTP class, like PHPMailer , to send mail using your IPS's server

Answer 3

You don't need PHPMailer (thus the libphp-phpmailer package) to use the mail() function (also, I would recommend swiftmailer over PHPMailer anytime). Also, if you want to use the mail() function you will need a Mail Transport Agent ( MTA ). I recommend installing the postfix package (it's available by default in Ubuntu, just use sudo apt-get install postfix ). After that, your code should output Mail sent. :)

-1 to the other two answers for not reading your question.