WAMP server and Mail server

MrClass

Hello everyone. I am currently doing some experiments with WAMP on a machine (my sandbox web server) that has a public IP address. I will soon implement a web student report system that might include some mail functionalities. I do have Exchange 2010 in the environment but cannot use it for my web server (security reasons, I don't want to have my mail server blacklisted). I am looking for other alternatives and thought perhaps I can install an open source mail service to run on the web server itself. Though I searched for such a solution, tried a couple, but non worked as advertised (I tried mailenable). Does anyone use an open source mail server that is guaranteed to work with PHP (to send SMTP mails)? If you do, can you post the name of the application and walk me through the configuration? Thanks!

rolf

I think PHP works with sendmail, and probably also most major MTAs.
From the PHP manual:

For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have access to the sendmail binary on your system during compile time. If you use another mail program, such as qmail or postfix, be sure to use the appropriate sendmail wrappers that come with them. PHP will first look for sendmail in your PATH, and then in the following: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib. It's highly recommended to have sendmail available from your PATH. Also, the user that compiled PHP must have permission to access the sendmail binary.

Something called EZComponents might help, it's a library of PHP components. You only need one of them: the mail component. I believe it contains lots of options and allows you to open sockets directly and send mails - without the sendmail wrapper. In other words, it contains an implementation of the SMTP protocol. Probably the POP protocol too.
I want to install an MTA on my server to receive and send mails, and provide email to some domains I host. But I have yet to find one that is easy to install and configure... If you find any, let me know!