Xampp Mercury Localhost Outlook 2010 Not Working

Question

Environment: Windows 7-64 Ultimate, Xampp 3.2.1, Mercury, Outlook 2010.

I have gone through a few tutorials on how to set up Xampp Mercury for Localhost email functions using outlook Express as the test email app. The ultimate purpose is to test PHP/email functions.

I have set up Mercury as per the tutorial on: http://noobcode.blogspot.ca/2010/01/how-to-send-mail-from-localhost-with.html. Got to the point of setting up Outlook - except I have Outlook 2010, not Express. Used the same settings, but Outlook 2010 gave me an error message during the setup/test stage.

The error message I get from Outlook 2010 during the setup and test stage is: "Send test email message: Cannot send the message. Verify the e-mail address in your account properties. The server responded: 421 Service not available, closing channel."

Is there a difference between using outlook express and outlook 2010 for this purpose?

Several screenshots of what I did are provided at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jkit8i41lhicsuq/ULlWLcJcu6

Any help is appreciated - thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Re-installed the latest Xampp and Mercury, reconfigured as before, and now it works fine. On various discussions over the web, it seemed others were having similar issues, where a re-install or update solved the problem. This route worked for me.