Send mail from localhost with PHP with MAMP

Question

I've been trying everything I can find on the internet for this, and none of them seem to be working, so I'm doing something wrong and I need some help figuring out what.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [email protected]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]

The above code is what I have changed everything to, (except for the email is my actual email (also I'm not sure if yahoo email will work with this or not, so maybe that's the problem?)) I am not sure where the sendmail_path goes to, I cannot find that path anywhere (am I suppose to download some file/program called sendmail?)

also, my APACHE port I have changed to 80, and my MySQL port is 3306, (I don't know if those ports have anything to do with the smpt_port or not)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

(if there are any other ways, (easier ways) of doing this, please also let me know).

Kaye

MAMP - so you're on a mac? Probably won't have the actual sendmail, but may have postfix or exim, both of which provide a sendmail alias and masquerade as sendmail. – Iq

Yeah, I'm on a Mac, and okay I'll see about those thanks. – Kaye

possible duplicate of sending an email using MAMP and php scripts – Sawdust

I know this post is 2 years old, but for what it's worth: the usr folder is a hidden one. See this post to show hidden folders in Finder: macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/… – Samirasamisen

Answer 1

MAMP PRO already has this, and has a simple interface to do this, I got it and I have it working perfectly. http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/

Kaye

First time I see a validated answer with negative votes o_0 – Grecian

Answer 2

The solution on this post finally worked for me. https://tripleroi.com/solvedenabling-sendmail-on-localhost-for-mamp-free-version/

Correct setting in php.ini:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
;SMTP = localhost
;smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = [email protected]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path =/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f  [email protected]

You have to make sure to comment out the Win32 settings. After doing that, my MAMP server on my Mac finally got a mail through.

Sufferable

Link no longer works, can you provide a code example. – Rickets

Get ready to get a hell of a load of emails from the past, which were all stored and never sent until you change this :). – Bartell

This solution still works in July 2022 with latest Mamp 6.6 and php 8.1.1 – Glyptic

March 2024, MAMP now includes MailHog. I answered this question using MailHog. – Newspaper

Answer 3

I used to have an array of problems like this including the email one when I was still using MAMP.

MAMP Pro should fix it all, but I recommend just doing an install of apache/php/mysql yourself. You'll have no more problems with basic stuff like this and it's a free solution.

If you're on OSX apache is already there, php can be installed via homebrew. Mysql can just be downloaded from the official site as an installer.

Virology

Answer 4

This is slightly off-topic, but you should know that if you're sending emails to any sort of real customers from the localhost, they're very likely to end up in spam. Instead of using a local email server, use one of the third-party, super-cheap email sending services: Amazon SES or Sendgrid are both easy to get started with, and easy to scale up with.

Metachromatism

Answer 5

In my case the problem was in empty /etc/postafix/main.cf

cat /etc/postafix/main.cf

shows nothing. But there was not empty main.cf~orig So I've hust copied contents from main.cf~orig:

sudo cp main.cf~orig main.cf

After that MAMP starts sending mails.

Dolliedolloff

Answer 6

MAMP has changed since this question was asked, and now includes MailHog, which makes it much easier to test emails.

Environment: MAMP is version 6.8.1, and I am on a Mac.

The MAMP php.ini file for my MAMP includes

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
MAMP_MailHog_MAMPsendmail_path = MAMP_mhsendmail_MAMP

Comment out the default mailing configuration so MailHog will be used:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 25

1. Download and install MailHog
2. Edit /private/etc/postfix/main.cf to include:

myhostname = localhost
relayhost = [127.0.0.1]:1025

3. View your local email by browsing to http://localhost:8025/

MAMP's own documentation on this: https://documentation.mamp.info/en/MAMP-PRO-Mac/Servers-and-Services/MailHog/

Newspaper

Answer 7

Set 'from' in mail.php config file.

Ineligible

You may only send mails from emails attached to your domain... On localhost you don't have such an email – Laguna