Not sure if this should be in here or not but anyway....... does anyone know if it's possible to set-up some kind of e-mail system on my home PC (currently running Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL) so that I can send test e-mails from PHP to myself?
I can do this when I'm on-line obviously by sending e-mails to my regular account, but I need to be able to do something similar off-line in order to test out websites before I upload them to the web.
Any pointers would be great.. thanks.
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Hmmmm not a bad idea.. I'll keep trying stuff out.
For now though I've found a work-around for it. Once the email has been built (html, attachments, images etc) instead of sending it off to an e-mail address I save it as a file with a .eml extension.... then when I double-click on the file it gets opened in Outlook Express just like a normal e-mail would.
It works but I would prefer some sort of POP3 or SMTP thing set-up so the search continues.
For now though I've found a work-around for it. Once the email has been built (html, attachments, images etc) instead of sending it off to an e-mail address I save it as a file with a .eml extension.... then when I double-click on the file it gets opened in Outlook Express just like a normal e-mail would.
It works but I would prefer some sort of POP3 or SMTP thing set-up so the search continues.
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Stoneguard
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http://www.pmail.com
Their Mercury mail server is nice and runs pretty well. You can set up your own localized domain and send yourself email on the same computer as much as you like (reply to em too).
Their Mercury mail server is nice and runs pretty well. You can set up your own localized domain and send yourself email on the same computer as much as you like (reply to em too).