I'm using email piping to parse messages and handle them appropriately in my app.
I'd like to figure out a way to test this locally on my Macbook Pro. I use MAMP for development.
Any ideas how I can send an email to my local machine that gets piped to a script?
Thanks!
If the thing you need to test is just a pipeline, yourscript <samplemessage.txt does the same thing.
unless you really want to install a mail server on your local machine, you can't. shouldn't really be hard to set up a test environment on your hosted site.
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Using XAMPP on Windows I am developing a WordPress site and need to catch all outgoing emails into a single local mailbox or even a folder. I am testing a plugin that sends out emails, it would be easier to do this locally rather than updating the remote Linux server on every small change.
Any advice on the simplest way to do this?
I always use mailcatcher for this
Check http://block81.com/articles/test-emails-locally-with-mailcatcher for a tutorial
It seems like there are two ways to go, and the determining factor is whether you want to host on your own computer, or through a webhost.
If I have an IDE, a webhost server I subscribe to, and an FTP client to transfer my files to the server, then I don't need to install PHP, MySQL, and XAMP, right?
I know XAMP allows me make my computer website server.
When I install PHP, am I installing the intepreter for my computer/server to parse the .php files? (and same for MySQL?)
If I pay for web hosting, then their servers already have PHP and MySQL parsers, and all I need to do is upload my text files, right?
Thanks in advance
U just cant simply put the files in server without developing them.and if you want to develop any website or any webapp then u need to make your system a local server where you can execute your server side languages like php.XAMP is a short form for mysql,apache and php for windows.and 'website server' is not the proper word.use LOCALHOST instead because only u will have access to your server unless you are connected via LAN or WAN.so i can summarize the above in few points keeping in mind that you want to develop your website.
step 1:install XAMP
step 2:develop and test your scripts.
Step 3:if everything works fine than host your site in the webserver for everybody to see it.
I'm using mac OS snow leopard, and i have probs with mail, i'm not sure is it something about gmail, or php mail() func.
It's not working. I wrote it this way (just for testing ).
mail('something#example.com', 'My Subject', 'My Message');
I done * i need with postfix configuration, but it's not working (can't get the mail).
Any help, just need explanation on how things work. I'm googling last 3-4 hours, but nothing (didn't find the right answer). And yes, i'm using local server.
Thanks!
If your application is hosted in local host the mails will not be able to send. Upload to a live server and check it. (You need a mail server to send the mails)
Just a tip - if something isn't working, try and find the problem withing your code before blaming gmail or php functions. These have been tested and re-tested in live environments by literally millions of people.
Do you have a mail server installed and configured? Do you have Apache sendmail enabled?
I would love to be able to test php webapps that require emailing registration info etc. on my mac. I downloaded a version of CommuniGate Pro. I need to mail either to an account inside or outside (whichever is best) of the localhost. Again this would be used for testing purposes to verify and debug my code prior to uploading to a hosting service. Any ideas, help and/or examples would be very much appreciated. If it would be easier I could go over to Windows XP. That would just mean setting up wamp and transfering my files over from the mac side via dropbox.
The following tutorial will help you to view emails sent by your local web apps in Mail.app
http://traumwind.de/tindertraum/archives/local_mail_osx.html
I realize that I need to use a mailserver so people can contact me, my question is, how can I set one up on my local machine so I can test it?
I have XAMPP installed with PHPMyAdmin and I'm just toying and learning with it.
Now, in my PRODUCTION server, what email should I use to send users comments to me? I'm really new and need some guidance.
Generally I don't recommend you setting up a mailserver on your local machine just for testing.
Check out the PHP function mail(), it should be already configured and ready to run on the production server.
If you want to test if your script works, simply print out the arguments you would pass to mail().
Assuming your production server is running linux, you can use the sendmail binary or local smtp.