Dummy SMTP Server for testing apps that send email
- by Patrick McElhaney
I have a lot of apps that send email. Sometimes it's one or two messages at a time. Sometimes it's thousands of messages.
In development, I usually test by substituting my own address for any recipient addresses. I'm sure that's what everybody else does, until they get fed up with it and find a better solution.
I was thinking about creating a dummy SMTP server that just catches the messages and dumps them in a SQLLite database, or an mbox file, or whatever.
But surely such a tool already exists? How do you test sending email?