title: XAMPP PHP sending emails from to localhost
body: <p>I'm trying to send messages from Localhost to Localhost (Thunderbird account), I'm using XAMPP following this tutorial <a href="http://newcoderslife.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-xampps-mail-server-mercury-mail/" rel="nofollow">How to use mercury ....</a></p>
  
  <p>My php.ini conf is </p>
  
  <pre><code>    [mail function]
  ; For Win32 only.
  ; http://php.net/smtp
  SMTP = localhost
  ; http://php.net/smtp-port
  smtp_port = 25
  
  ; For Win32 only.
  ; http://php.net/sendmail-from
  sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost
  
  ; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
  ; http://php.net/sendmail-path
  ;sendmail_path 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>=</p>
  
  <p>Despite that I still receive the next error </p>
  
  <pre><code> Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 421 Service not available, closing channel. 
  </code></pre>