The mail function doesn't seem to work on WAMP :/ Help with SMTP ?

[pllaybuoy]

Soooo , as usual I am rolling with my php learning(not regularly though) and I am looking for some alternative of MAIL function in php since it is not working so I assume WAMP doesn't include/setup a SMTP on its own . Can anybody tell me some alternate of either the mail function or setting up a SMTP ? I am on win-7 and I have already tried hmailserver but it didn't work for me . How did you manage to use the mail function or other SMTP features with WAMP or XAMP ? (since it is the correct choice when on the learning stage) . Make sure the alternatives are freeware because I am not going to spend some bucks and let go of my billionaire's status

[Fur]

Configure Mercury on XAMMP.

http://www.danieltmurphy.com/setting-up-mercury-smtp/


P.S: I'm no too sure, never used the mail() function.

[proxx]

I know its not what your asking but.. run this stuff on linux, its worth it.

[EmilKXZ]

Totally agree with @proxx. It's worth it. And if you don't want to partition your disk, and install a linux distro that could potentially break things at your bootloader... just get Virtualbox and install Ubuntu Server in the virtual machine, that way you can run both linux and windows at the same time, whilst developing in a near real-world environment. Upload whatever you are developing to the virtual machine and you're set.