使用Mac Yosemite使用XAMPP和PHP发送电子邮件

Question

I am really confused on where to start with sending emails. I have search the web but the amount of content available for different packages and softwares has really confused me. I was wondering if anyone here had a simple or knows of a simple tutorial of how i can send an email using xampp.

Im new to using local host and so far have only used MySQL and Apache from xampp to load and view my php files for an application.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me start setting up XAMPP to send emails when i use the php.

Some sites suggest a separate server is needed for emails such as PHPMailer while others suggest a few config changes need making like changing in the php.ini files which I'm very cautious to change incase my whole xampp crashes!

is this link any good? http://www.websnippetz.com/2013/01/send-email-from-xampp-localhost.html Many are using SendMail package with XAMPP but i can't find a download for that.

anyone tried anything which worked for them?

please help a very confused developer guys!

Answer 1

To send emails from your localhost your need an Email-Server like postfix or Exim or you send your E-Mails over SMTP what is described on that site from your link.

The easiest way is to use an abstraction layer like Swift Mailer

http://swiftmailer.org/docs/sending.html

Here you have a lot of possibilities to send E-Mails. Another solution is to install a local Mailserver and fetch all sending E-Mails. In MAMP Pro for example you have an integrated Mailserver.

http://blog-en.mamp.info/2009/09/how-to-sending-emails-with-mamp-pro.html