This is something that has troubled me for at least a year or more…Joomla would refuse to send emails whatever you set in the global configuration file.
This is what I did to get it to work whether you need all the steps or not I’m not 100% sure, all I know is I can now debug from my local machine without having to dump everything on an external which quite frankly is a pain in the arse!
This is all set up with a Google mail account which seems to do the trick and using a WAMP envoirnment not tried it with any other email service. How to after the jump…