How do you send emails using plain PHP mail on WAMP on Windows?

Normally, PHP mail works by using Sendmail which is installed on *nixes, so it doesn't work on a Windows box. However, normally we just rewrite our code to using a SMTP server, but what about when we really don't want to - or can't - modify third-party code?

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A new year with lots of promises is upon us - actually it's been a new year for a while now, but I only got around to blog about it just now - and a lot of things has changed in the geeky life of me.

In the following I'll outline the most important changes, namely the move from Windows to Linux as primary OS, from Ubuntu to Debian as Linux of choice, from Gnome to KDE as main desktop environment, from Visual Studio to KDevelop as C++ development environment, from Notepad++ to Emacs.

And, what's probably more interesting to you, I'll try to explain why the change has taken place, and what that means.

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