I have been running AMPPS (Softaculous AMPPS) on OS X from version 10.9-10.11 (Mavericks to El Capitan) and have never had to configure any email settings in order for the PHP mail() function to work.
Here is the mail section of my php.ini:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = me@example.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = On
; The path to a log file that will log all mail() calls. Log entries include
; the full path of the script, line number, To address and headers.
;mail.log =
; Log mail to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows 95).
;mail.log = syslog
My question is, how, or where are the emails being sent from? I have never configured AMPPS in any way to send emails. They just seem to work.
The reason I am asking is, I am trying to setup AMPPS on a local network server but cannot get emails to send even after configuring the smpt email settings with my gmail account.
I found out that OS X comes with postfix preinstalled, that is why I don't need to setup SMTP settings for PHP.
However, with my PC problem, and to avoid any more hassle I just install hMailServer on my windows local server and the PHP mail() function sends emails perfectly.