Sending Mail from an Internal LAN - Any Advice? [Solved]

[tweezer]

Hello,

I am running XAMPP 1.7.4 on a Windows 7 machine on an INTERNAL LAN. We use it in our office to run PHP/MySQL applications without any access to it opened to the outside world.

But, I would like certain applications to be able to send emails to my staff, such as joe@mycompany.com. We use google apps (gmail) as our mail service provider (that is, mycompany.com is actually gmail).

I've read a lot of different posts, but wondering if someone can give me a nudge in the right direction to get my php applications on my LAN sending emails to my staff at mycompany.com.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
T.

[JonB]

You need to use the 'fake sendmail' included with XAMPP. Its found in the xampp\sendmail folder. There's a configuration file for it with (as Irecall) examples in it. If you want tutorials Google 'setup fake semdmail'. (and, of course add the right PHP code)

As long as you have an internet connection, it will be able to use Google's SMTP servers to forward your mail.

Good Luck

[tweezer]

Thanks Jon! I have read a bit about this setup. I'll head down that road and let you know how it goes.

Cheers!
T.

[tweezer]

Thanks for your advice Jon. It works now.

I looked at some other stuff out there on this topic, and did the below steps with my setup. Note that I use google apps as my email service provider. That is, email to user@mydomain.com goes to gmail and is handled there.

Edited the php.ini file as follows:

Under the [mail function] area:
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 587

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from =username@mydomain.com

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

The I edited the sendmail.ini file as follows:

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port=587

default_domain=mydomain.com

auth_username=username@mydomain.com
auth_password=xxxxxxxx

force_sender=username@mydomain.com

hostname=mydomain.com

STOPPED AND RESTARTED APACHE!!!

Then I used the test php script I found here: http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/threads/347696/sending-email-from-localhost-in-xampp-windows

And it worked!

It also works for my applications.

Thanks again,
T

[JonB]

Great - I'm glad its working. and thanks for posting how you got things working.

LOL - I use it for the "Excruciatingly Correct Guide" 's XAMPP server (found in my 'sig' line), so I was pretty sure you would get it working.

Good Luck with XAMPP

[tweezer]

Excruciatingly excellent!

One footnote:

I found that I do not necessarily need this in sendmail.ini:

force_sender=username@mydomain.com

You can leave that commented out and the emails have the correct sender address when coming from the application...

Cool stuff!!

T.