emailing from a localhost

[city_coder]

Right ok, whats an alias?
when i go onto add aliases, i have alias and real address.
what goes in what? an example would be great cos this bit just confused me. sorry :S

[tfit]

Right ok, whats an alias?
when i go onto add aliases, i have alias and real address.
what goes in what? an example would be great cos this bit just confused me. sorry :S

I questioning myself now if you need an alias! You normally would use an alias instead a full email address when mail is local. But since you don't have a domainname all is local. But this will work

alias account@localhost
real address account.

Of course account isn't taken literally; but the account you made. But try without too. Now make an new account in your favourite mailclient with the ip address of the mailserver (smtp/pop)

[city_coder]

so if i put in alias account:
account@localhost
and in real address account:
email address that i use in real life

and why do i have to create an account in a mail client? because i need to set the ip address of the mailserver? what is that address? how do i find that out?

[tfit]

so if i put in alias account:
account@localhost
and in real address account:
email address that i use in real life

and why do i have to create an account in a mail client? because i need to set the ip address of the mailserver? what is that address? how do i find that out?

city_coder,

I'm worried about you. Before I answer; are you using a single machine or using a separate one? Because that makes a difference.

[city_coder]

lol yeah well the way i learn is through examples and telling me why things happen at each stage and we havent done it that way so thats why im asking so many questions.

yeah only the 1 machine. but i will be asking how to do it with 2 machines later

[tfit]

When it's on a single machine forget about the alias. You won't need it.

and why do i have to create an account in a mail client?

What point is there to mail the message if you won't fetch them. Another reason is to test if your mailserver is working. Ok, you're good to go.
Load up your form and see if your php file inserts it into the database and sends mail to mercury

[city_coder]

Ok nearly good to go, i havent set up the mail client yet. Im gona use outlook express as thats just installed obviously

What address do i put in? the address that im putting into the form? Also what is the IP address of the mailserver? how do i get to it?

[tfit]

Since it's on the same machine you can use localhost

[city_coder]

ok so my fake email account is account@localhost on outlookt express

then it wants me to choose my incoming mail server:
POP3, IMAP or HTTP

which one?

then it wants me to enter my incoming mail server, what goes in there?

also u didnt say what/how i can get my IP address of my mail server!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tfit]

ok so my fake email account is account@localhost on outlookt express

then it wants me to choose my incoming mail server:
POP3, IMAP or HTTP

which one?

then it wants me to enter my incoming mail server, what goes in there?

also u didnt say what/how i can get my IP address of my mail server!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHA, Oh man you remind me of my best friend. Sometimes I am puzzled why he is asking noob questions. So what I do; when he leaves his pc I install the programs he wants. When he asks what I did I just say I can't remember.
Anyaway. POP3/SMTP all are localhost. No need for IP for anymore (single machine).