Configure Sendmail for WAMP and connect with Gmail in development

Have you installed WAMP into your PC for developing a website and looking for how to send email with it for testing your email feature is working or not? Continue reading this blog.

Unlike XAMP, WAMP does not come integrated with sendmail feature and thus you need to do something extra when you want to test your development waork in your local machiine. To configure WAMP for sending email you need to follow the below steps (assuming WAMP is already installed and working okay):

  1. Download the Fake Sendmail for Windows.
  2. Use Gmail or any other email account to configure the sendmail.
  3. Change te Gmail setting to allow third party email sending feature.
  4. Update the PHP.ini configuration for your website or WAMP server.

Here is the detail elaboration of the steps involved.

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