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Hi. I am testing some new applications out for my father. I am getting him used to using Joomla CMS. I have set up a local server using WAMP. Whenevr I try to use the remember password feature, it says an email has been sent to the email I used during installation (root@localhost). What free mail server program can I use to to read emails sent to localhost? remeber I am not too saavy. Any suggestions?

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I don't think you can receive mail on localhost (your pc), is weird as the web server is always configured to localhost.
I take it it's using the PHP mail function

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Alias root@localhost to your email address.

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Yes, it is using PHP send mail function. So if I ask it to send to my email instead of root@localhost it will send?

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http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~radionet/nuc1996/ref/usail/mail/aliasing/

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