php.ini & SMTP= - how do you pass username & password

PHP mail() command does not support authentication. Your options:

1. PHPMailer- Tutorial
2. PEAR - Tutorial
3. Custom functions - See various solutions in the notes section: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

I apply following details on php.ini file. its works fine.

SMTP = smtp.example.com
smtp_port = 25
username = info@example.com
password = yourmailpassord
sendmail_from = info@example.com

These details are same as on outlook settings.

I prefer the PHPMailer tool as it doesn't require PEAR. But either way, you have a misunderstanding: you don't want a PHP-server-wide setting for the SMTP user and password. This should be a per-app (or per-page) setting. If you want to use the same account across different PHP pages, add it to some kind of settings.php file.

After working all day on this, I finally found a solution. Here's how I send from Windows XP with WAMP.

1. Use Google's SMTP server. You probably need an account.
2. Download and install Fake Sendmail. I just downloaded it, unzipped it and put it in the WAMP folder.
3. Create a test PHP file. See below.

<?php
    $message = "test message body";
    $result = mail('recipient@some-domain.com', 'message subject', $message);
    echo "result: $result";
?>

4. Update your php.ini file and your sendmail.ini file (sendmail.ini is in the sendmail folder).
5. Check the error.log file in the sendmail folder that you just created if it doesn't work.

Reference:

• http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/599
• http://www.joshstauffer.com/send-test-emails-with-wampserver/

Use Mail::factory in the Mail PEAR package. Example.