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I have XAMPP set up on my Windows XP machine (running Apache, PHP, MySQL and all those goodies). I've set up Mercury Mail, and I can get email to *send* using it just fine. However, I haven't figured out how to *receive*.
I can read the emails I've sent to myself with Notepad (emails how up in .txt format) by looking in the /XAMPP/Mercury Mail/Admin (all emails have the ".cnm" extension) - but I'd like to configure Thunderbird to check my localhost server (in that folder) and receive the emails I send to myself.
The reason I'm doing this, of course, is that I'm developing in a localhost environment, and right now I need to check and be sure a newsletter component is working properly, and I also need to check the HTML emails it sends out.
Would anyone know what configuration settings I need to make Thunderbird check my localhost account and retrieve the emails as they should? I keep getting a "connection refused" error.
Any help would be appreciated.
For anyone who might run into the same issue:
My BIG mistake was thinking I had set my Mercury Mail (my SMTP server) to run automatically when XAMPP was loaded. I discovered that it wasn't doing that when I thought it was - so I had to start my SMTP server. (That, of course, was my biggest mistake!)
After that, the rest was almost as easy.
First, I had to open up /xampp/sendmail/sendmail.conf and uncomment the pop3 server lines (there were three), and then, at the bototm of the file, I had to uncomment the host.
Next, I opened up /xampp/MercuryMail/MAIL/Admin/PASSWD.PM and set a password for my administration email.
Then I had to configure Thunderbird to check the server correctly: my account name was "admin@localhost" (where before, I was using "admin@localhost.com"), the server name is "localhost" and the user name is "admin". When prompted, I put in the password that I set in the "PASSWD.PM" file.
Worked like a charm. Hope this helps someone else!
