Posted by bigbman on November 3, 2005 at 10:58pm
I've got most everything working now in XAMPP, but I'm not quite sure about how\where to configure the email server.
Does XAMPP comes with a full fledged email server?
If so, how do I configure it to send\receive\host email for Drupal?
If not, what sorts of open source email servers are out there? I have a no-ip.com domain, and want to host this (don't have an external SMTP account, and don't want to use one).
Has anyone done anything like this?
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A bit late, but I've been dealing with this myself recently.
XAMPP doesn't include a mail server. If you have access to an SMTP server that is wide open (as can be the case in some intranets) you can use SSMTP which is a simple and lightweight solution. Otherwise you need to install Postfix or something similar to provide proper support for outbound mail from php. The tricky part is configuring the local SMTP service to properly communicate with your "real" SMTP host out there somewhere.
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This post was served by Google as no2 result to me with the query *xampp mail server*. That sucks..:D Thanks for the Postfix reference, but it's the exact opposite of the idea of XAMPP even if it does have its own PGP key.
Besides using for example http://www.postcastserver.com/ you can always try switching over to SMTP (should Drupal allow it, I haven't used it yet) & use your ISP's one, that should probably work without any problems.. especially if you have Cable for example (IP range matches).
Configure your php.ini
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path = "\xampplite\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
Try Hamster Playground
Hello bigbman,
XAMPP for Windows comes with the "Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32". It's a feature monster and I really don't like monsters ;-) . So I searched for something else and found Hamster. As the name implies it's nice and cute. It's a small freeware news- and mailserver (pop3, smtp) that does everything I want - receiving emails from my dev system. It's easy to set up and does't need much attention while running.
Link: http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/
With best regads
Mike
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