think I may have to find more info on setting up a localhost email testbed, after spending the afternoon scroogling, I came up with
these:
1. setting php ini to send via smtp
and
2. installing mail server software
I am a bit confused because i didn’t use an "all in one" php mysql package, I manually installed mysql and php on my xppro 64bit machine, some forums, blogs, and tuts I found said by setting the php ini no email server was required (depending on the php contained within the mail sent) others said yes it was necessary even some posts here (digging way back)
I tried several accounts, my last was for gmail
in php.ini I set:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.googlemail.com (from thunderbird's config on the smtp)
smtp_port = 465
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [email protected]
in my modx revo install under system settings smtp I set
smtp authentication 1
smtp connection prefix tls
smtp host smtp.googlemail.com (from thunderbird's config on the smtp, I always thought it was gmail)
smtp password my password
smtp port 465 (again looking at what thunderbird detected(
smtp user [email protected]
use smtp 1
on my openSuSE box I could set it up fairly easily to be a mail server, but as I had mentioned in what of my first posts, I am an adobe slave, and virtualization won’t work across several monitors....
wish adobe would put out some tarballs, maybe one day gimp and inkscape will catch up. of course, if I wanted to mess with networking my xp machine to my linux box (acting as a server) I guess I could pull it off, but with my knowledge I’d probably end up botching it and putting my network at risk, security wise.
I tried also my local isp email server and at first I thought it worked because avg spat out about 30 test emails and signup forms I had done while testing my registration and mail pages with odd snippets, I have no idea why it did this, nor could I get it to do it again, because the emails avg had kept (for outgoing scans) all had that link needed to finish my testing of login.register with bob’s snippet...
I tell you though, email was always the one part I dreaded the most because I scrambled to make sure it worked properly when getting a site live, luckily though I never really had any problems and any way to test forms before going live is essential info.
