How to send emails from PHP on Windows

Requirements:

• Windows OS
• PHP
• An account that you can send from (smpt server/user/pass)
• 5-15 minutes

Download sendmail for Windows from
http://www.glob.com.au/sendmail/sendmail.zip
Copy sendmail.exe and sendmail.ini into C:/usr/lib/

Edit sendmail.ini and enter your mail account credentials.

You might want to configure these 2 fields as well (or sending may not work)
force_sender=you-sender@yourdomain.com
force_recipient=you@yourdomain.com
By the way I uncommented debug_logfile so I can see what data is being sent to my SMTP server.

edit c:\php\php.ini

sendmail_from = you@yourdomain.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = C:/usr/lib/sendmail.exe -t -i


Restart apache
Start sendmail.exe either from [Start] > Run > C:/usr/lib/sendmail.exe or Go to C:/usr/lib in Windows Explorer and then DoubleClick on the exe file.

... and now the best part - Testing

Here is an example from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Create a file called m.php in htdocs