Mar 27, 2011
Setting up a SMTP server for debugging
I wrote a client that was sending emails over SMTP server and needed to debug it, but didn't want muddle my way through setting up an actual SMTP server. Instead I found two convenient options. The first is to use python where you can starts a dummy SMTP service that prints to stdout with: sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25 Another option is to sign up for http://dummysmtp.com that offers a free dummy SMTP server, showing the emails on the web interface.