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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Sending Our Email

Daniel Goldberg
Daniel Goldberg
12,443 Points
Posted by Daniel Goldberg
Daniel Goldberg
12,443 Points

Unable to send e-mail through localhost (XAMPP).

I have been following along using Terminal on Mac, and using port 8080 on my localhost (as instructed in Slim's "First Application Walkthrough) which is set up using XAMPP. My index.php file is identical to what is shown in the video and everything was working fine until I tried to actually send an e-mail. When I hit submit, Terminal gives me a message that reads "Segmentation fault: 11" and automatically exits out of port 8080. The browser shows a broken page that reads "The localhost page isn't working. localhost didn't send any data"

Does anyone know why I am encountering this problem and how I might go about fixing it?

1 Answer

Serhii Lihus
Serhii Lihus
6,352 Points
Serhii Lihus
Serhii Lihus
6,352 Points

Hi there Daniel!

Instead of SendMail you can use Postfix. It's already installed on mac and you need only to configure it properly.

1) Here is the small tutorial how to configure it on mac (link).

2) And alternative tutorial

Second tutorial describe in detail's how to do it with other SMTP providers and how to test it properly.

After you configure mail server and test it. Try to send email from contact form.

Best regards.