hai friends Whether iam able to send the email through my local host to any of the email id So I have typed this program and i have sent the email, while running this php program i get an error that Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in G:\html\mail.php on line 24 So how to set the ini_set in my program can anybody help me how to set the ini_set If any body knows this sent me the answer Thank u in advance My php program is mail.php is below <? $to=""; $fromname=""; $fromemail=""; $subject=""; $msg=""; $to=$_POST['to']; $fromname=$_POST['frname']; $fromemail=$_POST['fremail']; $subject=$_POST['sub']; $msg=$_POST['mes']; $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $headers .= "From: ".$fromname." <".$fromemail.">\r\n"; $msg = stripslashes($msg); mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers); ?> <body> <center> <form action="mail.php" method="post"> <table> <tr> <td>To</td> <td><input type="text" name="to"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>FromName</td> <td><input type="text" name="frname"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>FromEmail</td> <td><input type="text" name="fremail"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Subject</td> <td><input type="text" name="sub"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><textarea name="mes" rows=5 cols=35></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="SEND"> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </center> </body>