Apache Friends Support Forum

Hello Apache Friends Forums,

I am currently in the process of turning my computer into a web server, and I am working on getting Apache to send emails when a form is filled out on the site.

I have a third party program that is helping me with writing the code for the form that will distribute an email, and when I try and fill out the form, no email was sent out to the email address (I checked the spam as well, just in case). I tried filling out the form in a different server, and the email was sent out.

It appears the issue is that the server is not configured to send emails yet. I have only ran the installation for XAMPP, and that is it at the moment. So, my question is how do I configure the XAMPP server to be able to send email?

1. You will need to configure the 'fake sendmail' included with XAMPP. That is all that is needed to use PHP and Perl (or HTML) mailto functions.

2. I (again) caution you against running your own mailservers. Its another 'whole ball of wax' and, if poorly executed, an indirect way to get your domain on the e-mail blacklists. If you insist on going forward - DO NOT use Pegasus/MercuryMail. Its a bug-ridden POS. Use hMailserver, its free, well engineered and well supported.

http://www.hmailserver.com/

Good Luck