Mediawiki SMTP Setup On Windows

Mediawiki is surely not fun to work with. There are thousands of configurations needed to set up the basic/essential functionalities like SMTP. To use secure SMTP with gmail SMTP server, I had to install PEAR as per http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/getting-started-with-pear/2 and then run "pear install --alldeps Mail-1.1.14". After this I restarted my web server (apache in my case). So much for SMTP.