Trying to build a contact form for my lil website but I recieve a mailserver exception!

Question

I realize that I need to use a mailserver so people can contact me, my question is, how can I set one up on my local machine so I can test it?

I have XAMPP installed with PHPMyAdmin and I'm just toying and learning with it.

Now, in my PRODUCTION server, what email should I use to send users comments to me? I'm really new and need some guidance.

Answer 1

Assuming your production server is running linux, you can use the sendmail binary or local smtp.

Answer 2

Generally I don't recommend you setting up a mailserver on your local machine just for testing.

Check out the PHP function mail(), it should be already configured and ready to run on the production server.

If you want to test if your script works, simply print out the arguments you would pass to mail().