How to send email from xampp in localhost

This is what worked for me Hopefully no one else will burn oil to figure this out like i did.

Here is my sendmail.ini

[sendmail]

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=25
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
[email protected]
auth_password=yourgmailpassword
[email protected]
php/php.ini ----basically comment everything out except sendmail_path & mail.add_x_header

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

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = Off

; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
;mail.log = "C:\xampp\apache\logs\php_mail.log"
This worked for me after i updated the sendmail files (the old ones dont support smtp)

go to http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ and grab the latest sendmail zip file
unzip to desktop and copy the files into your \xampp\sendmail folder replacing everything that was there.EVERYTHING!
Now open up sendmail.ini and copy paste what i showed above.(remove everything in that file first or just comment everything out!)
NOTE: you dont need Mercury servers started for this.
I was making a password recovery php on localhost when i encountered this problem. I needed to send users their password. - your php looks okey