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Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 255, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp\www\site\form_mailer.php on line 55

when i used my system without a server it showed some things like this

Surname: $surname <br>
Othernames: $othernames <br>
Sex: $sex <br>
Organisation: $organisation <br>
Tel: $tel <br>
Email: $email <br>
Address: $address <br>
Message: $message <br>
Thank you for taking time to send us a mail. It has been received and we will get back to you shortly.</p>
<p>
Thanks.
EOD;

but when i used wampserver it responded fine but showed an error comment before the confirmation text.

<?php
$emailSubject = 'Customer Has a Question!';
$webMaster = 'raylight4lyf63@gmail.com';

$surnameField = $_POST ['surname'];
$othernamesField = $_POST ['othernames'];
$sexField = $_POST ['sex'];
$organisationField = $_POST ['organisation'];
$telField = $_POST ['tel'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$addressField = $_POST ['address'];
$messageField = $_POST ['message'];

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Surname: $surname <br>
Othernames: $othernames <br>
Sex: $sex <br>
Organisation: $organisation <br>
Tel: $tel <br>
Email: $email <br>
Address: $address <br>
Message: $message <br>
EOD;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

$theResults = <<<EOD
<font style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;font-family:georgia;"><p>Thank you for taking time to send us a mail. It has been received and we will get back to you shortly.</p>
<p>
Thanks.</p><br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/dxceller" style="color:blue;">Webmaster</a> for God's Grace Computers</font>
EOD;

echo "$theResults";
?>

<form action="form_mailer.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Upload MSWord document<br />if required:</td>
<td><input type="file" label="file" id="file" accept="application/msword" height="151" width="132" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Surname:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="surname" id="surname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Othernames:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="othernames" id="othernames" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sex(M/F):</td>
<td><input type="text" label="sex" id="sex" maxlength="1" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Organisation:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="organisation" id="organisation" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tel:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="tel" id="tel" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="email" id="email" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Address:</td>
<td><input type="text" label="address" id="address" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td><textarea cols="50" rows="8" id="message" label="message" /></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>max message length is 400</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Send Mail" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</font>
</form>