Send mail in php with iis server

PHP
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I need to send mail to test locally in my machine with php code. I have configured php with iis server I am using windows 7 . I need to send mail to my email id using php code.

Please help on this.

Thank you

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How far have you got with this?

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I did not do anything please assist me from first.

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Don’t use the default mail() function. This only works if you are really really lucky. I once got mine to work, but then one day, it just stop working. The alternative would be to use PHPMailer because PHPMailer works without having to setup a mail server. You just need to understand how to use SMTP. You can actually use your actual email address to get SMTP to work or your actual server email.

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Have you at least written the HTML form?

As @spaceshiptrooper says, have a look at PHPMailer for sending the email. I doubt you want to be setting up a mail server on your local machine.

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bool mail(string $to, string $subject, string $message)
Finally, here’s a small example on how to combine it all and send the email:

<?php
ini_set('SMTP','localhost'); 
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'Your.Own@Address.com'); 

$to = 'Someone@somewhere.com';
$subject = 'Example subject';
$body = 'With an example body…'; 

mail($to, $subject , $body);
?>
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Without a SMPT server you can use testMailServer.exe…works a treat with mail() for local testing. Some SMTP will not allow you to use their SMTP service unsolicited and therefore you’ll have to provide log-in etc. That said, you don’t have to use SMTP either. For local testing use the above tool…

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Hi,

Thanks for your response. Now I have setup and able to send the mail using phpmailer. Now problem is I need to embed inline image to the mail. But If I add the exact image path I am able to attach inline image. But here image data stored the in database as “base64” encoded string. I need to attach inline image to the mail by using the base64 string data. Please assist me on this.

Thanks in advance.

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