How to configure email for Bugzilla on windows 8.1 x64 and XAMPP?

I have an issue with sending a mail from my bugzilla installation. Specifications:

Local installation (http://localhost/bugzilla)
Windows 8.1 pro x64
XAMPP Server
bugzilla 4.4.4 installed using bzr in c:\xampp\htdocs\bugzilla
ActivePerl 1604 x64

A perl checksetup.pl output:

C:\xampp\htdocs\Bugzilla>perl checksetup.pl
* This is Bugzilla 4.4.4 on perl 5.16.3
* Running on Win8 Build 9200

Checking perl modules...
Checking for               CGI.pm (v3.51)     ok: found v3.64
Checking for           Digest-SHA (any)       ok: found v5.85
Checking for             TimeDate (v2.23)     ok: found v2.24
Checking for             DateTime (v0.28)     ok: found v1.10
Checking for    DateTime-TimeZone (v0.79)     ok: found v1.71
Checking for                  DBI (v1.614)    ok: found v1.63
Checking for     Template-Toolkit (v2.22)     ok: found v2.25
Checking for           Email-Send (v2.16)     ok: found v2.199
Checking for           Email-MIME (v1.904)    ok: found v1.926
Checking for                  URI (v1.37)     ok: found v1.60
Checking for       List-MoreUtils (v0.32)     ok: found v0.33
Checking for    Math-Random-ISAAC (v1.0.1)    ok: found v1.004
Checking for                Win32 (v0.35)     ok: found v0.48
Checking for            Win32-API (v0.55)     ok: found v0.75

Checking available perl DBD modules...
Checking for               DBD-Pg (v2.7.0)    ok: found v2.19.3
Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    ok: found v4.022
Checking for           DBD-SQLite (v1.29)     ok: found v1.40
Checking for           DBD-Oracle (v1.19)     ok: found v1.68

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for                   GD (v1.20)     ok: found v2.50
defined(@array) is deprecated at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Chart/Base.pm line 181.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Chart/Base.pm line 233.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
Checking for                Chart (v2.1.0)    ok: found v2.4.6
Checking for          Template-GD (any)       not found
Checking for           GDTextUtil (any)       ok: found v0.86
Checking for              GDGraph (any)       ok: found v1.48
Checking for           MIME-tools (v5.406)    ok: found v5.505
Checking for          libwww-perl (any)       ok: found v6.05
Checking for             XML-Twig (any)       ok: found v3.44
Checking for          PatchReader (v0.9.6)    ok: found v0.9.6
Checking for            perl-ldap (any)       ok: found v0.64
Checking for          Authen-SASL (any)       ok: found v2.16
Checking for         Net-SMTP-SSL (v1.01)     ok: found v1.01
Checking for           RadiusPerl (any)       ok: found v0.22
Checking for            SOAP-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v1.11
Checking for          XMLRPC-Lite (v0.712)    ok: found v0.717
Checking for             JSON-RPC (any)       ok: found v1.04
Checking for              JSON-XS (v2.0)      ok: found v2.34
Checking for           Test-Taint (any)       ok: found v1.06
Checking for          HTML-Parser (v3.67)     ok: found v3.71
Checking for        HTML-Scrubber (any)       ok: found v0.09
Checking for               Encode (v2.21)     ok: found v2.56
Checking for        Encode-Detect (any)       not found
Checking for          Email-Reply (any)       ok: found v1.203
Checking for HTML-FormatText-WithLinks (v0.13)     ok: found v0.14
Checking for          TheSchwartz (v1.07)     not found
Checking for       Daemon-Generic (any)       not found
Checking for             mod_perl (v1.999022) not found
Checking for     Apache-SizeLimit (v0.96)     not found
Checking for        File-MimeInfo (any)       not found
Checking for           IO-stringy (any)       ok: found v2.110
Set up gcc environment - gcc.exe (rubenvb-4.5.4) 4.5.4
***********************************************************************
* OPTIONAL MODULES                                                    *
***********************************************************************
* Certain Perl modules are not required by Bugzilla, but by           *
* installing the latest version you gain access to additional         *
* features.                                                           *
*                                                                     *
* The optional modules you do not have installed are listed below,    *
* with the name of the feature they enable. Below that table are the  *
* commands to install each module.                                    *
***********************************************************************
*      MODULE NAME * ENABLES FEATURE(S)                               *
***********************************************************************
*      Template-GD * Graphical Reports                                *
*    Encode-Detect * Automatic charset detection for text attachments *
*      TheSchwartz * Mail Queueing                                    *
*   Daemon-Generic * Mail Queueing                                    *
*         mod_perl * mod_perl                                         *
* Apache-SizeLimit * mod_perl                                         *
*    File-MimeInfo * Sniff MIME type of attachments                   *
***********************************************************************
COMMANDS TO INSTALL OPTIONAL MODULES:

    Template-GD: ppm install Template-GD
  Encode-Detect: ppm install Encode-Detect
    TheSchwartz: ppm install TheSchwartz
 Daemon-Generic: ppm install Daemon-Generic
       mod_perl: ppm install mod_perl
Apache-SizeLimit: ppm install Apache-SizeLimit
  File-MimeInfo: ppm install File-MimeInfo

Reading ./localconfig...

OPTIONAL NOTE: If you want to be able to use the 'difference between two
patches' feature of Bugzilla (which requires the PatchReader Perl module
as well), you should install patchutils from:

    http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/

Checking for            DBD-mysql (v4.001)    ok: found v4.022
Checking for                MySQL (v5.0.15)   ok: found v5.5.32

Removing existing compiled templates...
Precompiling templates...done.
checksetup.pl complete.

I want to configure it with our test host, so I have configured Administration > Parameters > Email as:

mail_delivery_method: STMP
mailfrom: MY_USERNAME@MY_DOMAIN.com
use_mailer_queue: off
smtpserver: mail.MY_DOMAIN.com
smtp_username: MY_USERNAME@MY_DOMAIN.com
smtp_password: MY_PASSWORD
smtp_ssl: off
smtp_debug: on

Also there is SECOND option of using gmail, but I went through this document, but I did not get any result. The answer might be simple, but as do not know perl at all, I might not find it.

So can you instruct me how I can get the bugzilla emails work?

Solution

The problem came out to be the installation of the sendmail, I assumed that it should be installed in: c:\xampp\htdocs\usr\lib\sendmail.exe, since my bugzilla installation was: c:\xampp\htdocs\, but I was wrong. The installation of sendmail, irrespective of the installation of bugilla c:\usr\lib\sendmail.exe. To sum-up steps that solved my problem:

Downloaded the latest version of the sendmail and changed sendmail.ini to appropriate values
located sendmail and all the files that came bundled with it at: c:\usr\lib\
Changed the permissions, so that any one can read, write and execute the sendmail.exe
Changed the compatibility settings of the sendmail.exe for all the user to run with windows xp PS3 and run as administrator

Also remember to choose sendmail as the send method of the bugzilla.