Web design and Development is anything but not exciting, every day is a school day it would seem. Today i discovered that PHP’s mail functionality and in turn the lovely plugin Contact Form 7 don’t work as expected (read: not at all) on a windows server and need a bit of tweaking of the SMTP settings to work.
In the case of WordPress it’s better to use the native wp_mail() function to send mails in conjunction with this SMTP configuration plugin. after those changes have been made WordPress will be able to send emails from your WordPress site without hitch.