You can install any smtp server on your windows machine and the mail() will work with default settings. You can check this out: http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html Thanks, Vikash Kumar http://vika.sh On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaurav Kumar <kumargauravjukebox@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Sorry Kim, don't want to use phpmailer script or manually setting user > accounts u/p in the script. > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Gaurav > > > > Gaurav Kumar wrote on 15/01/2010 09:54: > > > > > > NO SMTP > >> > >> Any trusted SMTP software to install on local development machine and > how > >> to > >> set it up with php to send an email? > >> > >> Also just providing the SMTP server details in php.ini will not work for > >> me > >> as this requires authentication/credentials etc.. > >> > > > > Get PHPmailer and make a gmail account that you connect to and mail > > through. > > > > -- > > Kind regards > > Kim Emax - masterminds.dk > > >