SMTP Local development to Send email in PHP; Windows Platform/ XP with no IIS
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From: Gaurav Kumar on 15 Jan 2010 03:54 Hi All, Ash, Angelo, Any ideas how to send an email in PHP on windows platform/xp on local development machine. System Configuration PHP 5.2 Apache 2 No ISS NO SMTP Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and how to set it up with php to send an email? Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work for me as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. Thanks, Gaurav Kumar blog.oswebstudio.com
From: Gaurav Kumar on 15 Jan 2010 07:00 Sorry Kim, don't want to use phpmailer script or manually setting user accounts u/p in the script. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net(a)emax.dk> wrote: > Hi Gaurav > > Gaurav Kumar wrote on 15/01/2010 09:54: > > > NO SMTP >> >> Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and how >> to >> set it up with php to send an email? >> >> Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work for >> me >> as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. >> > > Get PHPmailer and make a gmail account that you connect to and mail > through. > > -- > Kind regards > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk >
From: vikash.iitb on 15 Jan 2010 07:22 You can install any smtp server on your windows machine and the mail() will work with default settings. You can check this out: http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html Thanks, Vikash Kumar http://vika.sh On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaurav Kumar <kumargauravjukebox(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Sorry Kim, don't want to use phpmailer script or manually setting user > accounts u/p in the script. > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net(a)emax.dk> wrote: > > > Hi Gaurav > > > > Gaurav Kumar wrote on 15/01/2010 09:54: > > > > > > NO SMTP > >> > >> Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and > how > >> to > >> set it up with php to send an email? > >> > >> Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work for > >> me > >> as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. > >> > > > > Get PHPmailer and make a gmail account that you connect to and mail > > through. > > > > -- > > Kind regards > > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk > > >
From: Richard Quadling on 15 Jan 2010 07:51 2010/1/15 <vikash.iitb(a)gmail.com>: > You can install any smtp server on your windows machine and the mail() will > work with default settings. You can check this out: > http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html > > Thanks, > > Vikash Kumar > http://vika.sh > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaurav Kumar > <kumargauravjukebox(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Sorry Kim, don't want to use phpmailer script or manually setting user >> accounts u/p in the script. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net(a)emax.dk> wrote: >> >> > Hi Gaurav >> > >> > Gaurav Kumar wrote on 15/01/2010 09:54: >> > >> > >> > Â NO SMTP >> >> >> >> Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and >> how >> >> to >> >> set it up with php to send an email? >> >> >> >> Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work for >> >> me >> >> as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. >> >> >> > >> > Get PHPmailer and make a gmail account that you connect to and mail >> > through. >> > >> > -- >> > Kind regards >> > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk >> > >> > You only need a local SMTP server if you want to hold and relay mail. If you want to send mail directly to the recipients SMTP server you can do that with standard PHP. getmxrr() is your friend here. You provide it with the domain of the recipient and you get back the SMTP server(s) associated with that domain. Now, you can send the message to THEIR smtp server ... ini_set('SMTP', xxxx); where xxxx is one of the servers returned from getmxrr(). No authentication required. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling
From: Gaurav Kumar on 15 Jan 2010 08:18
Hi Richard, The problem is that if I am using any open source software or any other pre-built software then I will not be able to manage through ini_set. Also http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html which vikash mentioned works through outlook settings. Anyways the below will help- http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php http://glob.com.au/sendmail/ Thanks, Gaurav Kumar blog.oswebstudio.com On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling(a)googlemail.com>wrote: > 2010/1/15 <vikash.iitb(a)gmail.com>: > > You can install any smtp server on your windows machine and the mail() > will > > work with default settings. You can check this out: > > http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html > > > > Thanks, > > > > Vikash Kumar > > http://vika.sh > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaurav Kumar > > <kumargauravjukebox(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> Sorry Kim, don't want to use phpmailer script or manually setting user > >> accounts u/p in the script. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net(a)emax.dk> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Gaurav > >> > > >> > Gaurav Kumar wrote on 15/01/2010 09:54: > >> > > >> > > >> > NO SMTP > >> >> > >> >> Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and > >> how > >> >> to > >> >> set it up with php to send an email? > >> >> > >> >> Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work > for > >> >> me > >> >> as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Get PHPmailer and make a gmail account that you connect to and mail > >> > through. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Kind regards > >> > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk > >> > > >> > > > > You only need a local SMTP server if you want to hold and relay mail. > > If you want to send mail directly to the recipients SMTP server you > can do that with standard PHP. > > getmxrr() is your friend here. > > You provide it with the domain of the recipient and you get back the > SMTP server(s) associated with that domain. > > Now, you can send the message to THEIR smtp server ... > > ini_set('SMTP', xxxx); > > where xxxx is one of the servers returned from getmxrr(). > > No authentication required. > > > > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html > Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling > |