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I am currently using XAMPP and Thunderbird 3 and wish to set up my local server to send mail to e-mails like gmail/hotmail/(anymail) so I can test out my php scripts that are using the mail() function. It would save some time as it would bypass the step of tediously saving and uploading the php file every time a minor change is made.
Things I have done but have not worked: (through various existing tutorials online)
a. click on Configuration -> Manage Local Users
b. Create New User
Username: **root**
Password: **root**
c. click on Configuration -> Mercury SMTP
d. make the following changes
IP Interface to use: **127.0.0.1**
Listen to TCP/IP port: **25**
Announce Myself as: **127.0.0.1**
e. click on Configuration -> Mercury POP 3
f. make the following changes
Listen to TCP port: **110**
IP Interface to use: **127.0.0.1**
g. click on Configuration -> MercuryE SMTP client Configuration
h. make the following changes
Identify Myself as: **127.0.0.1**
Name server: **127.0.0.1**
i. click on Configuration -> Mercury D pop3 client
j. make the following changes
POP3 Host: **127.0.0.1**
Username: **root**
Password: **root**
4. Installed Thunderbird 3 5. In Thunderbird
a. click on Tools -> Account Settings
b. In Account Settings
i. click on Account Actions -> Add Mail Account
ii. In Add Mail Account
Your name: **root**
Email address: **[email protected]**
Password: **root**
iii. click next
vi. under Editing Config set as following
Username: **root**
Incoming: 127.0.0.1 POP/IMAP
Outgoing: 127.0.0.1 SMTP
v. click Create Account
c. send test mail to myself (this part doesn't work for me, it says mail sent successfully but when I check inbox in Thunderbird, there is no mail.)
4. Test PHP mail() script (I haven't gotten to this step yet as I have not yet been able to successfully set up a local mail server.)
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You can send mail from localhost with sendmail package , sendmail package is inbuild in XAMPP. So if you are using XAMPP then you can easily send mail from localhost. For example, you can configure C:\xampp\php\php. ini and c:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.
The PHPmailer library provides the way to send an email from localhost with the SMTP server using PHP. We will use the Gmail account as an SMTP server to sending the email from localhost.
These helped me out when I was having trouble.
http://www.danieltmurphy.com/setting-up-mercury-smtp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU4PT7xMSO0
Mercury can be activated from the Xampp control panel.
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