... a question that raises in the mind of programmers developing applications in their local development environments. This can be achieved by making the following modifications. Step (i) Install the WAMP / XAMPP server in your windows machine. After this install you will be able to access sites created on the localhost with URL http://localhost Step (ii) Download and extract the send mail application for Windows from http://glob.com.au/sendmail/. Remember the path where you have extracted sendmail. For e.g. c:\wamp\sendmail Step (iii) Edit sendmail.ini within c:\wamp\sendmail. This ini file has enough documentation explaining how the configuration changes should happen on the file. (more…)

Step 1: $ sudo apt-get install postfix Postfix configuration screen throws you with the following options to choose from i) No changes (no changes to configuration settings) ii) Internet site (Mail sent and received using SMTP) iii) Internet with smarthost (Mail sent to another machine called smarthost) iV) Satellite system (All mail sent to another machine for delivery) v) Local only (No network based mail system. Only applied to this local machine) (more…)