Sending email to the "outside world" from localhost using hMailServer and Gmail SMTP on Windows 7

Question

I am not sure if this is technically possible but I am running a AMPPS box on Windows 7 as my localhost and I have configured it with Gmail SMTP (ssl://smtp.gmail.com) to send out email from my PHP scripts like joomla, wordpress, socialengine, etc.

Now I installed and setup hMailServer and I am able to send and receive emails locally but was wondering if there was a simple way that I could configure my localhost and email server to send out email to outside world (e.g. @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com receipients) using Gmail SMTP?

Currently with my setup, I am only able to receive installation confirmation emails from AMPPS but nothing else like "Forget Password" or "User Registration Forms" work.

Any ideas without getting too deep into code modification?

Answer 1

The simple answer is no, or rather it is far from easy, especially from a home based server.

And the reason is that your IP address amd mail server domain will not be considered as a ligitimate mail server by most of the legitimate mailservers you will be trying to send mail to, and they will just reject it as yet another spam server.

Have a look at these:

https://serverfault.com/questions/72559/setting-up-a-mail-server-best-practices-to-be-recognized-as-legitimate

How to conduct legitimate email campaigns