Send Emails Locally Through Network

[F.Danials]

Hi,

In order to test my PHP email scripts, is it possible to send emails locally from one machine on a LAN to another machine, without using the internet?

[Daniel0]

Yes, but you'll still need a mail transport agent (MTA) on each machine. Common ones for GNU/Linux are e.g. sendmail or Postfix.

My computer is called daniel-laptop, so to send a mail I could send it to e.g. daniel@daniel-laptop or root@daniel-laptop from anywhere inside the network my computer is connected to.

Emails are always user@machine, so as long as the part after the @ is a valid hostname (i.e. points to a machine you can reach) then you can send an email.

[F.Danials]

Do you know of any programs for Windows? - Preferably ones that don't need to be installed?

[Daniel0]

No, I don't know any. Besides, you'll need to install it no matter what.

Anyway, the first result for "windows mta" on Google is this:
http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/otrs...ay/001789.html
It contains a small list of MTAs for Windows.

[Cups]

If its just testing you're after this old thread contains some ideas, also look at fakemail.

[CrispinCannes]

Yes, but you'll still need a mail transport agent (MTA) on each machine. Common ones for GNU/Linux are e.g. sendmail or Postfix.

My computer is called daniel-laptop, so to send a mail I could send it to e.g. daniel@daniel-laptop or root@daniel-laptop from anywhere inside the network my computer is connected to.

Emails are always user@machine, so as long as the part after the @ is a valid hostname (i.e. points to a machine you can reach) then you can send an email.

I've used Postfix, fairly easy.