Sending mails from localhost to gmail or yahoo or rediff?
<p>Hi 
i am working on sending email to any recipient like yahoo gmail 
my code is
contact form</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Email Form &lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;

&lt;form method="post" action="sendeail.php"&gt;

&lt;!-- DO NOT change ANY of the php sections --&gt;
&lt;?php
$ipi = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
$httprefi = getenv ("HTTP_REFERER");
$httpagenti = getenv ("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
?&gt;

&lt;input type="hidden" name="ip" value="&lt;?php echo $ipi ?&gt;" /&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="httpref" value="&lt;?php echo $httprefi ?&gt;" /&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="httpagent" value="&lt;?php echo $httpagenti ?&gt;" /&gt;


Your Name: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;input type="text" name="visitor" size="35" /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your Email:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;input type="text" name="visitormail" size="35" /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Attention:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;select name="attn" size="1"&gt;
&lt;option value=" Sales n Billing "&gt;Sales n Billing &lt;/option&gt; 
&lt;option value=" General Support "&gt;General Support &lt;/option&gt; 
&lt;option value=" Technical Support "&gt;Technical Support &lt;/option&gt; 
&lt;option value=" Webmaster "&gt;Webmaster &lt;/option&gt; 
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Mail Message:
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;textarea name="notes" rows="4" cols="40"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;input type="submit" value="Send Mail" /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and senemail.php</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; 

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; 
&lt;title&gt;Sendemail Script&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;

&lt;!-- Reminder: Add the link for the 'next page' (at the bottom) --&gt; 
&lt;!-- Reminder: Change 'YourEmail' to Your real email --&gt; 

&lt;?php

$ip = $_POST['ip']; 
$httpref = $_POST['httpref']; 
$httpagent = $_POST['httpagent']; 
$visitor = $_POST['visitor']; 
$visitormail = $_POST['visitormail']; 
$notes = $_POST['notes'];
$attn = $_POST['attn'];


if (eregi('http:', $notes)) {
die ("Do NOT try that! ! ");
}
if(!$visitormail == "" &amp;&amp; (!strstr($visitormail,"@") || !strstr($visitormail,"."))) 
{
echo "&lt;h2&gt;Use Back - Enter valid e-mail&lt;/h2&gt;\n"; 
$badinput = "&lt;h2&gt;Feedback was NOT submitted&lt;/h2&gt;\n";
echo $badinput;
die ("Go back! ! ");
}

if(empty($visitor) || empty($visitormail) || empty($notes )) {
echo "&lt;h2&gt;Use Back - fill in all fields&lt;/h2&gt;\n";
die ("Use back! ! "); 
}

$todayis = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;

$attn = $attn ; 
$subject = $attn; 

$notes = stripcslashes($notes); 

$message = " $todayis [EST] \n
Attention: $attn \n
Message: $notes \n 
From: $visitor ($visitormail)\n
Additional Info : IP = $ip \n
Browser Info: $httpagent \n
Referral : $httpref \n
";

$from = "From: $visitormail\r\n";


mail("YourEmail", $subject, $message, $from);

?&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;
Date: &lt;?php echo $todayis ?&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank You : &lt;?php echo $visitor ?&gt; ( &lt;?php echo $visitormail ?&gt; ) 
&lt;br /&gt;

Attention: &lt;?php echo $attn ?&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; 
Message:&lt;br /&gt; 
&lt;?php $notesout = str_replace("\r", "&lt;br/&gt;", $notes); 
echo $notesout; ?&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;?php echo $ip ?&gt; 

&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="contact.php"&gt; Next Page &lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>what changes i have to made in my localhost so that i would be able to send the mail... </p>

<p>thanks.</p>
