How to send Email from Localhost to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail using PHP mail()?

[waseemkayani]

OS [Windows XP Professional]

Web Server [Apache2Triad]

Email Client [ThunderBird]

Email Server [ArGoSoft Mail]

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Q. How to send email directly from localhost to Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail account? Do I really need email client and email server? Do I need to configure "Server.tab" file or "PHP.ini" or both?

 

Scenario is; I do not want to upload the WebApplication, I want it to be locally hosted (Of course Internet connectivity is there for sending/receiving emails etc)

 

Is it something like >> LocalHost will send text body, email header etc to Email Server and Email Server will use an existing email account (say [email protected] etc) for sending mails to any other account ??

 

Is there anyone to help me out?... Thanks in advance.

[uniflare]

You can download "Free SMTP Server"s, they are like messengers, you ust click and install the server, and make sure ur php.ini smtp.path or w/e it is, is set to localhost.

 

Most free smtp server software is buggy and unreliable.

 

 

The other option would be to use a Mailer class library like PHPMailer to use authentication, you can use googles smtp server to send data to other emails then.