php mail setup in xampp

Question

I m learning PHP and have installed Xampp on my computer    But I have a problem with the setup as the email option doesn t seem to be working    After doing some reading I think it has something to do with the below  found on my server in the php ini file    mail function       For Win32 only        hp    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       Please note I have changed above hp    from http    because of a restriction on this website to post a hyperlink   Is there anything I need to change  I have seen software such as swiftmailer mentioned but I don t know if Xampp has this included already   Any tips would be greatly appreciated    Thanks James

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My favorite smtp server is hMailServer   It has a nice windows friendly installer and wizard  Hands down the easiest mail server I ve ever setup   It can proxy through your gmail yahoo etc account or send email directly   Once it is installed  email in xampp just works with no config changes

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Unless you have a mail server set up on your local computer  setting SMTP   localhost won t have any effect   In days gone by  long ago   it was sufficient to set the value of SMTP to the address of your ISP s SMTP server  This now rarely works because most ISPs insist on authentication with a username and password  However  the PHP mail   function doesn t support SMTP authentication  It s designed to work directly with the mail transport agent of the local server   You either need to set up a local mail server or to use a PHP classs that supports SMTP authentication  such as Zend Mail or PHPMailer  The simplest solution  however  is to upload your mail processing script to your remote server

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XAMPP should have come with a  fake  sendmail program  In that case  you can use sendmail as well    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   me example com    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 -i    Sendmail should have a sendmail ini with it  it should be configured as so     Example for a user configuration file    Set default values for all following accounts  defaults logfile  C  xampp sendmail sendmail log     Mercury  account Mercury  host localhost  from postmaster localhost  auth off    A freemail service example account ACCOUNTNAME HERE tls on tls certcheck off host smtp gmail com from EMAIL HERE auth on user EMAIL HERE password PASSWORD HERE    Set a default account account default   ACCOUNTNAME HERE   Of course  replace ACCOUNTNAME HERE with an arbitrary account name  replace EMAIL HERE with a valid email  such as a Gmail or Hotmail   and replace PASSWORD HERE with the password to your email  Now  you should be able to send mail  Remember to restart Apache  from the control panel or the batch files  to allow the changes to PHP to work

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