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August 11, 2010 12:19pm
Subscribe [4]#1 / Aug 11, 2010 12:19pm
One thing that consistently bothers me about developing an EE site on my local XAMPP install is that email-related functions don’t work. 9 times out of 10 the email works once the site is introduced to the staging/production environment but I’d like to be able to test beforehand. This may not be possible, but I was wondering if there’s any way to get EE’s email module working on a local server. Sorry if this is posted in the wrong category, I just wasn’t sure where else to put it.
#2 / Aug 11, 2010 3:28pm
One thing that consistently bothers me about developing an EE site on my local XAMPP install is that email-related functions don’t work.
You will have to install a local mail server as well. I have never had issues with that on my local Linux box.
This may not be possible, but I was wondering if there’s any way to get EE’s email module working on a local server. Sorry if this is posted in the wrong category, I just wasn’t sure where else to put it.
Since this is not exactly a Tech support issue as such I’ll move it to the CodeShare Corner.
#3 / Aug 13, 2010 10:04am
Thanks, I guess it was sort of stupid for me to assume that XAMPP came with a mail server too. I’ll check into that.
#4 / Aug 13, 2010 10:06am
I think it does, actually. You might have to enable it, though.
#5 / Aug 13, 2010 5:20pm
Nice tip, I didn’t know this was possible.
#6 / Aug 13, 2010 11:23pm
I’ve been doing quite the Google spree and maybe I’m just using the wrong search terms but I’m seeing a lot of documentation for doing this on a PC but nothing substantial for us Mac folk. Anybody have experience setting up a local mail server on their Mac to work alongside XAMPP?
#7 / Aug 14, 2010 4:25pm
Wouldn’t you use MAMP for that? I’m pretty certain MAMP Pro has such as something like that built in.
#8 / Aug 20, 2010 12:57am
It sure does. I was being cheap and using XAMPP because it’s free, but the 60 bucks for MAMP Pro is a small price to pay to be able to test emails locally. I got it setup and working within about 20 minutes, the catch is you have to have access to an SMTP server somewhere on the internet. If you have a web host like MediaTemple you can just instruct MAMP to piggyback on its SMTP server for your email sending.