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I want indicate the SMTP adresse (in XAMP configuration) for use it in the PHP site.

How to do this ?

Thank again.

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This thread has been hijacked for obviously devious reasons.

Thank, it's all right.

Wow Izzy, I see a lot of people asking for help with mail services and you seem to be the one with the know how on this subject, I wonder if your posts could be collected or you could write a guide on the subject of mail usage and or configuration and a moderator could pin it?

I'm sure the new users would appreciate this and it could even be translated to the other common languages found here?

I'm not sure but for me there was confusion over the use of mercury mail being the primary service for all mail but it would seem to me mercury mail is used if you want to have a mail service such as yahoo of google? See I'm still not really sure about that.

SMPT seems to be what sends all mail notifications for things like new posts and pms for phpbbs and maybe for mailing news for some sites when you want to mail a whole list of subscribers...?

Anyway maybe I way off here and apologize if so, I just see people getting stuck just as I did and you seem to be the one that points people in the write direction, i've even pointed a few in the same direction you pointed me in.

hi folks
1. the smtp installation in my xampp is 'deactivated'. how to activate it?
2. how to resign for email account on @localhost for testing of website on localhost.
i tried to send email in my test site with no success.
thanks in advance

Did you read the information from Izzys post?

Also, for the mercury mail set up you will need to follow one of the guides but in my case, maybe yours also not much is needed to do with mercury mail when you use the SMTP...

For example I send mail threw php smtp and zoneedit forewords all my incoming mail to a specified email account...

thank you for your reply
i followed the guide as izzys suggested, ie. made a change in my php.ini but no success.
i just want to know how to activate the deactivaded STATUS of SMTP in my xampp in //localhost ->Status
Or it is ignorable to activate it in xampp. so where it could be done. i cant send or receive an email from my test site's admin area and even customer cant send email using 'contact us' feature. when my site go live so in this way customers cant send a single mail to us.

tnx in advance

MercuryMail as to be started/running to show ACTIVATED under http://localhost

when i go to a //localhost it directs me to a xampp page. and there the status tells me 'deactivated' for smtp. there are no other feature where i can turn it on. then i click on mercury mail and try to send an email from postmaster@localhost to admin@localhost, after clicking 'send' it shows: 'Error! The message was not successfully sent!' maybe it related with some settings, but if so i dont know where...
if you have some clue about my this error
tnx in advance