Send and receive emails from localhost using PHP running XAMPP

Question

I am trying to make an application which can parse emails and update the database. I tried to set up the localhost to send and receive emails so that I can carry on from there. I am unable to do that. I tried configuring Outlook, Thunderbird to set up local email system using mercury mail server. Its not working properly.

I would like to have a step by step procedure explaining how to make this work.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

For sending emails via SMTP in PHP you only have to change SMTP = localhost in the [mail function] section of PHP.INI to the SMTP of your ISP. Also you need to change the port for some ISPs that block the default port (25). Exemple:

[mail function]
SMTP = mail.mydomain.com
smtp_port = 2525