Hi all, finally, found a site with lots of computer users!

I'm trying to learn how to MAKE dynamic websites and in a tutorial which I'm following, it requires me to set up some kind of mail server (??). Unfortunately,  the tutorial left out how to do this.

I'm trying to make a web form and once I've filled this web form out, and pressed the submit button, an email would be sent to my email client. Ok, I UNDERSTAND that I need a mail server to do this but what do I need to do this and how do I configure my computer to do this?

I'm RUNNING WinXP, wampserver (this INCLUDES apache and MYSQL ... if this is helpful..dunno) so I have turned off IIS web server. I know that IIS has a SMTP server but I don't know if I can use this (because I've turned of the IIS web server). Does this mean I need to install an external mail server?

If you need me to post code then let me know and let me know where I can find it. I'm not too bright on the programming side and I consider myself more of a designer

If anyone could help, I would be very grateful. So far I have more questions than answers....

Everytime I've tried to set up my own mailserver, I've gotten fed up and quit.

Could you just get a free gmail account and use that?

-rockp18, you are basically correct on all fronts.  For a (relatively) simple and free mailserver, you can use >hMailServer<.  Alternatively you can simply route the email to your ISP's mail server (the one that you use for your personal email).  Unfortunately, the PHP mail() function is not up to this job, and you would need to use something like Manuel Lemos's excellent >SMTP mail classes<.