[TYPO3-core] RFC: bug #7784: Check for mail configuration is wrong on Windows

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> What does it miss? It warns for all settings of "localhost" in SMTP-IP. 
> So you get even more warnings than with your check.

My impression was that we miss a check when SMTP and web server are both on localhost. Am I wrong?.. I can be.

> But I have no strong feelings about that. If you think that your check 
> is enough you'll get a +1 from me.
> 
> Of course you could do a connect at the port and see if an SMTP server 
> is running ;-)

Yes, I thought about that but sockets PHP ext is not always there, so I skipped this test.

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