Setting up mail server in pc

Question

While I working on a PHP script, sometimes it need to send emails. To see the progress I have to upload the full project online. Is there any way to setting up a mail server in my local machine? I'm using windows 8.

Answer 1

Use a STMP Mail class and you can send it for example via Google Mail. No need to upload it on your server then.

Answer 2

PHPMailer is a full featured email transfer Class for PHP supporting SMTP and POP3. So you not need to setup mail server on your pc. It works on localhost too.

Class Features

• Probably the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP!
• Used by many open-source projects: Drupal, SugarCRM, Yii, Joomla! and many more
• Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server
• Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
• Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
• Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding
• SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 mechanisms
• Native language support
• Compatible with PHP 5.0 and later
• Much more!

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