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**the hater** · Apr 9th, 2003, 02:15 PM

how i can run e-mail in the loclhost?

**The Hobo** · Apr 9th, 2003, 09:46 PM

I have two hands.

**mendhak** · Apr 14th, 2003, 02:07 AM

If it's a windows based machine, you need to configure SMTP server.

If it's Linux... I think it's Cronjob. I'm not too sure, some of the linux (l)users here could tell you.

**The Hobo** · Apr 14th, 2003, 11:16 AM

ohhh, localhost...I get it now.

**mendhak** · Apr 14th, 2003, 12:46 PM

llo.

I mean lol.

**phpman** · Apr 17th, 2003, 11:27 AM

localhost... how do you do that if you are not on the internet????

that's what localhost means to me, apache running as local and not on the net. if you don't get on the net how in the heck does the email get to your inbox in outlook????

some one tell me, as I have never got mine to work either since I don't get on the net.

**The Hobo** · Apr 17th, 2003, 04:06 PM

Originally posted by phpman
localhost... how do you do that if you are not on the internet????

that's that localhost means to me, apache running as local and not on the net. if you don't get on the net how in the heck does the emial get to your outlook????

some one tell me as I have never got mine to work either since I don't get on the net.

Okay, that was almost as confusing as the original post...

**phpman** · Apr 17th, 2003, 04:11 PM

is that better baby

**The Hobo** · Apr 17th, 2003, 04:22 PM

The way I've always understood it is that "localhost" is a shortcut to the IP address of the machine. It's a reference to the current machine, or host.

As to what he's talking about with "emailing in the localhost", I have no idea. Intranet mailing, maybe?

**phpman** · Apr 17th, 2003, 04:58 PM

well kind of.

localhost or 127.0.0.1 is the machine and that machine only. nobody can connect to it from the outside as every machine in the world has it. so it is not an IP so to speak. So if the machine is set to localhost Apache cannot recieve anything from the outside.

what I think he means is that when you test a script and it uses the mail function, he wants to see it work. but if he wants to send email than he will have to set up a email host and do all the emailing internally to his machine, waste of time if you ask me.

**The Hobo** · Apr 17th, 2003, 09:10 PM

Originally posted by phpman
well kind of.

localhost or 127.0.0.1 is the machine and that machine only. nobody can connect to it from the outside as every machine in the world has it. so it is not an IP so to speak. So if the machine is set to localhost Apache cannot recieve anything from the outside.

I know.

**CornedBee** · Apr 18th, 2003, 02:59 AM

localhost is a synonym for the loopback IP, that's true, but the other things aren't totally true. If you run Apache on localhost that means it runs on your local computer which is very nice for testing things. Yet you can configure Apache to listen to connections from outside as well as from the same computer. And you can send mail via a mail server. Nothing stops you from that as long as you have an internet connection.

**mendhak** · Apr 18th, 2003, 05:09 AM

OK, dude... what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?

**The Hobo** · Apr 18th, 2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by mendhak
OK, dude... what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?

Which "dude" are you talking to?

**mendhak** · Apr 19th, 2003, 04:50 AM

The clueless one, I think.

**The Hobo** · Apr 21st, 2003, 04:57 PM

Originally posted by mendhak
The clueless one, I think.

Alicia Silverstone? She's a hottie when she doesn't talk.

**CornedBee** · Apr 22nd, 2003, 01:50 AM

Absolutely.

**mendhak** · Apr 23rd, 2003, 12:18 AM

How do you know she's a dude?

**The Hobo** · Apr 23rd, 2003, 07:22 AM

Originally posted by mendhak
How do you know she's a dude?

Everyone's a dude, dude.

**phpman** · Apr 23rd, 2003, 08:05 AM

hehe run this thread in the ground. good job guys

the last thread I answer for this guy as he never answers his own threads.

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