Emailing from localhost /confused
Posted: 09. October 2011 12:16
I am trying to send an SMS alert to my phone from my computer (I'm signed up for unlimited SMS), and I read that all I have to do is send the alert to myphonenumber@mycarrier.com, which I know I can do from my regular email account because I just did. The thing is, I'm not sure if or how I can set up my local computer to send emails without using an email server like Mercury.
I did a search on this site for "+email +localhost" and got a whole bunch of entries, one of which I opened, and I looked up the site http://bravo.newnetenterprises.com/wordpress/?qa_faqs=using-email-with-php-in-xampp-for-windows. I'm confused, though, on what I'm supposed to do. I looked up C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini but didn't find any account entry, and in php.ini, I didn't find any [mail_function] entry. I added it and added the line sendmail_path = "\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t". I'm not currently getting any errors, but I'm getting a weird information loading (you can see it on my video at http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/3/9/2788777//information.wmv), and I'm not getting the email properly even though the script, as you can tell, says that the mail function returns true. I'll provide my php.ini and sendmail.ini code later if you guys need it; I would now but can't now because of the message size limit.
I did a search on this site for "+email +localhost" and got a whole bunch of entries, one of which I opened, and I looked up the site http://bravo.newnetenterprises.com/wordpress/?qa_faqs=using-email-with-php-in-xampp-for-windows. I'm confused, though, on what I'm supposed to do. I looked up C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini but didn't find any account entry, and in php.ini, I didn't find any [mail_function] entry. I added it and added the line sendmail_path = "\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t". I'm not currently getting any errors, but I'm getting a weird information loading (you can see it on my video at http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/3/9/2788777//information.wmv), and I'm not getting the email properly even though the script, as you can tell, says that the mail function returns true. I'll provide my php.ini and sendmail.ini code later if you guys need it; I would now but can't now because of the message size limit.