problem with sending mail

When I was doing a similar thing with Xampp on my office machine it worked fine, on my laptop at home I could not get email to send. I could not even get the 'write to file' to work without a few problems, which in the end I just though 'bol***cks to it', and did the mail testing on the live site. It was a pain that I never solved, despite hours on xampp forums, fiddling with config settings, installing different bits and bobs and generally pulling my hair out.

Why it worked on the office and not the laptop I have to this day still no idea.

Although no help at all, just thought I would share my experience of this :-)

Best wishes,

Paul.