2006
11.02

SendMail on Windows

By: Jonny
Category: Computing, Programming / Tags: no tag / Add Comment

I know this won’t apply to anyone, but I thought I would post it up anyway…  I use a windows box at work for my dev work which has the usual WAMP setup (Windows, Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1).  I spent a few minutes sorting out a SendMail stand-in for this setup today so that I could use the PHP mail function on my dev box.

I grabbed this useful little app which pushes mail straight through to an external SMTP relay (unlike PHP.ini, it can handle authentication).  Took about 3 mins to setup and test – very please with the result.

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  1. DDemented said: 2008.03.24 05:05

    You’re wrong. Your post *did*, in fact, apply to at least one person. Thanks! I’ll investigate the Windows Sendmail Standin.

  2. Maxwell Scott-Slade said: 2008.05.02 21:08

    This is actually really helpful for me too, so thanks. You came up on Google “wamp sendmail”.

  3. Jonny said: 2008.05.08 21:23

    Glad to know I was of help :)

  4. Cark said: 2008.11.20 13:26

    Awesome!

  5. My Development Environment. - JonnyReeves.co.uk said: 2008.11.21 20:49

    [...] which makes deploying sites to a web server easier.  To complete my local dev setup I setup fake sendmail which allows the mail() funcitons inside PHP 5 to be relayed to a remote mail server (very handy! [...]

  6. Digital Agency said: 2009.07.30 12:59

    For the 6 of us that actually develop on a Windows box, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

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