Mantis Emails with Google SMTP

[dirshah]

Hi All:
I have a very basic knowledge of PHP and I want to know if I will be able to use the google's smtp server to send the emails generated by Mantis Bug Tracker in the mantis_email_tabl table. I did a little R&D and found that the php mail() function cannot be used with windows xp. I do not know what method Mantis is following. Can someone guide me in how I will be able to send these emails?
An example will be appreciated as I have a very basic knowledge of PHP, 2 out of 10 may be

[atrol]

http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopi ... =3&t=15398

[dirshah]

Thanks I already studied that post and it helped. Now one more thing is worrying me that it takes very long to send an email on my local machine. It sometimes throws an error that the processing time exceeded 30 seconds on line 197 in class.smtp.php. I do not know how to reduce that oe make sure it always work fine:(

[atrol]

Which versions of MantisBT and PHP do you use?

[dirshah]

I am using
XAMPP 1.8.8 so PHP 5.4.4 and
mantisbt-1.2.11

[atrol]

PHP 5.4.4

I recommend to try latest stable PHP 5.3
There are known bugs using 5.4.x, especially when using with APC.