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Make Joomla localhost Email Work

September 14, 2008 |

If you have been developing Joomla locally, i.e.localhost or example.com, you may have trouble with the email function. Here is the fix for it.


Most ISPs block port 25 so you cannot send email from your own computer’s SMTP server. This is to block spammers. If you don’t intend to spam, you can use your ISP’s mail server.

To get the email function from your ISP SMTP server even if you are hosting your own Joomla site on your own computer to work, sign in as administrator to your Joomla! site. In the menu bar: Site -> Global Configuration -> mail tab. Your data should look like the following:

Mailer: SMTP Server
MailFrom: someone@example.com
From Name: SomeName
Sendmail Path /usr/sbin/sendmail
SMTP Auth: Yes
SMTP User: johndoe (username at one of your email accounts at your ISP)
SMTP Pass: trr33459 (password at one of your email accounts at your ISP)
SMTP Host: smtp.charter.net (Whatever your ISP tells you to use for their SMTP servers)



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  1. rcsprakash on September 17, 2008 8:26 am

    This is so useful, thank you very much for sharing it!

  2. ariela on September 17, 2008 8:27 am

    I originally thought it was impossible, now you made it possible. thanks for the tip!

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