Posted By: tidus on January 16, 2014, 7:52 am | Post: 1 |
Quote 1. Do I really need to have a mail server (e.g. hMailServer) in order to send out emails from my localhost? No. But if you want to send out mails from your PHP script you might have to have a mail server. Depends on the PHP script. Quote 2. Can I just use an outlook.com or gmail.com SMTP account to send emails? Yes. Gmail. (Btw Outlook is just a email client) Quote 3. What do I choose under AMPPS-ADMIN > Email Settings > Mailing Method - PHP Mail - SMTP Select SMTP: SMTP Server : ssl://smtp.gmail.com SMTP Port : 465 SMTP Username : Your Gmail Email Address SMTP Password : Password of your Gmail Account ----------------------- Follow AMPPS on, Twitter : https://twitter.com/AMPPS_Stack Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/softaculousampps Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+AmppsStack |
Posted By: tidus on January 17, 2014, 6:37 am | Post: 3 |
Quote From : mehrdod January 16, 2014, 2:18 pm Thank you for your reply tidus.
So to understand this correctly. If I decide to configure the Email Setting to SMTP and enter the Gmail server information and my account password, I don't require to run an email server in order for my scripts (e.g. Joomla Social and WordPress BuddyPress) to send out email messages to non-local email addresses like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com Correct? No. You will only get an installation details from Ampps. We don't configure Joomla, WordPress, etc to send mails. ----------------------- Follow AMPPS on, Twitter : https://twitter.com/AMPPS_Stack Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/softaculousampps Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+AmppsStack |
Posted By: tidus on January 17, 2014, 6:40 am | Post: 4 |
Quote From : mehrdod January 16, 2014, 2:18 pm Thank you for your reply tidus.
So to understand this correctly. If I decide to configure the Email Setting to SMTP and enter the Gmail server information and my account password, I don't require to run an email server in order for my scripts (e.g. Joomla Social and WordPress BuddyPress) to send out email messages to non-local email addresses like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com Correct? To configure SMTP server in WordPress you can install this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/configure-smtp/ ----------------------- Follow AMPPS on, Twitter : https://twitter.com/AMPPS_Stack Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/softaculousampps Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+AmppsStack |
Posted By: mehrdod on January 17, 2014, 2:34 pm | Post: 6 |
Quote From : tidus January 17, 2014, 6:40 am Quote From : mehrdod January 16, 2014, 2:18 pm Thank you for your reply tidus.
So to understand this correctly. If I decide to configure the Email Setting to SMTP and enter the Gmail server information and my account password, I don't require to run an email server in order for my scripts (e.g. Joomla Social and WordPress BuddyPress) to send out email messages to non-local email addresses like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com Correct? To configure SMTP server in WordPress you can install this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/configure-smtp/ Thank you for the plugin. I will go ahead and install this on my WordPress but to me this seems to be somewhat a troublesome way of getting emails if I have to configure each script separately with different plugins and modules just to send out emails. What about applications like OxWall? Do users get registration and notification messages from my localhost if I had only setup the Gmail SMTP or do I have to look for a plugin for OxWall as well? Is there a more concrete way of setting up an email so that any script could send out emails without requiring any modifications or third party plugins? |
Posted By: BBC2013 on May 28, 2014, 7:29 pm | Post: 7 |
Quote From : tidus January 16, 2014, 7:52 am Select SMTP: SMTP Server : ssl://smtp.gmail.com SMTP Port : 465 SMTP Username : Your Gmail Email Address SMTP Password : Password of your Gmail Account What is this "ssl" ? If i type it it doesnt reflect in php: $globals['mail_server'] = 'smtp.gmail.com'; Then this, is this OK when SMTP is activated ? $globals['mail'] = 0; Cannot get it to work. It works in one separate website with same settings, Drupal SMTP plugin. |