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Hi,

I've problems with XAMMP, PHP mail function.

I can not send mails with PHP, I get an error saying that the server does not relay non-local mails ?

What should I do?

Help?

I have tried Free SMTP server and also the Mercury mail server, but with no luck

Suggestions?

Aren't there really anyone else who can not send mails with mail() function when using Mercury?

You will need to configure php.ini to use fake sendmail.
Open xampp/apache/bin/php.ini
Find sendmail

and change it so that it looks something similar to bellow - make sure to change to the correct path.:

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; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = "/xampp/xampp/sendmail/sendmail.exe -t"

then open xampp/sendmail/sendmail.ini and edit the following:

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;smtp_server=localhost

to

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smtp_server=localhost

and

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;auth_username=
;auth_password=

to

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auth_username=MercuryMail UserName
auth_password=MercuryMail Password

then save and restart apache.

I wanted to do this without needing Mercury. My ISP is Earthlink. I was successful by setting up xxamp/sendmail/sendmail.ini as follows:

smtp_server=smtpauth.earthlink.net

auth_username=[my earthlink username]
auth_password=[my earthlink password]