No Mail Received in Inbox with Xampp 1.8.0, Mercurymail and Mail()

No mail received in inbox with XAMPP 1.8.0, MercuryMail and mail()

I just need to configure D:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini
By default, it contains the line

smtp_server=mail.mydomain.com

I had to change it to

smtp_server=localhost

No need to configure this in the older versions of XAMPP.

The correct configuration for [mail function] in D:\xampp\php\php.ini is

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
SMTP = 127.0.0.1
smtp_port = 25

; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program filesD:\xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.  

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
sendmail_path = "\"D:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the D:\xampp\mailoutput folder
; sendmail_path = "D:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

Now, I'm receiving mails in my inbox. Please note that "D:\xampp\" is my XAMPP installation path.

Apache localhost mail() not being received with Mercury Server & Thunderbird

I commented out the following line and it worked.

; sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

For good measure, I changed this to:

sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

I don't know why mailtodisk.exe is defaulted to being used, but it appears this simply writes the mail to a folder and it doesn't get delivered.

XAMPP mail not working with PHP mail() function

You would have to configure the mercury server bundled with xampp to actually deliver/relay the mails.

But I suggest you use something like SwiftMailer instead of php's mail() function.

edit: there is a third option. The mini-smtp-client built into php/win32 can't do authentication. Therefore you can't simply put SMTP=mail.gmail.com; smtp_port=25 in your php.ini. But you can set sendmail_path and point to an application that can relay the message to another smtp server (including authentication), e.g. fake sendmail.

(But I still suggest swiftmailer)

How do I enable XAMPP to locally use the php's mail() function so I can test my mail() scripts locally without having to upload to my server?

These helped me out when I was having trouble.

http://www.danieltmurphy.com/setting-up-mercury-smtp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU4PT7xMSO0

Mercury can be activated from the Xampp control panel.

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