How to disable mail on localhost?

[carsten888]

I tried this in php.ini but it still send an email from localhost...

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disabled_functions = mail

[Altrea]

which application sends the mail?

[carsten888]

Its a Joomla website. It send an update notification. Quite harmless, but for security and to prevent embarrasing situations with websites which are not online just yet, I want to make sure xampp is not sending any emails at all.

[Nobbie]

Probably Joomla does not use the standard PHP Mail API, therefore "disabled_functions" does not have any effect on Joomla. Ask Joomla support how to disable mail.

I want to make sure xampp is not sending any emails at all.

This cannot be done with a simple setting in php.ini, as there are thousand of ways how to send emails. You might configure a firefall to block all traffic on outgoing ports which are used for mails. Like port 25, 465 and 587.

[Altrea]

You need to configure Joomla to not send mails.
Joomla uses its own PHP mailer class which is not effected by disabling mail function.

[carsten888]

thx