How can I send dummy email????

[Mark Miller]

Hi,
I am writing a program that will send emails to our customer. During
test I don't want to send real emails. Is there a way to send it to an
SMTP server so that it does not actually forward them to the actual
recipients.

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

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Hi,
I am writing a program that will send emails to our customer. During
test I don't want to send real emails. Is there a way to send it to an
SMTP server so that it does not actually forward them to the actual
recipients.

Why don't you simply send them to yourself?

/Fredrik

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

I've run into the same thing.

We haven't implemented the solution yet, but our plan is to create a class
that derives from MailMessage but which actually sends the mail to a small
app that will decide what to do with it, based on whether the source app is
in test or not.

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"Mark Miller" <ma*********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:Oa*************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I am writing a program that will send emails to our customer. During test
I don't want to send real emails. Is there a way to send it to an SMTP
server so that it does not actually forward them to the actual recipients.

[Iqbal Ghasletwala]

Try the DevNull SMTP server at http://aboutmydns.com. This is a very
nice SMTP server that you can use for testing. It accepts emails but
deletes them as they come in


Nick Malik [Microsoft] wrote:

I've run into the same thing.

We haven't implemented the solution yet, but our plan is to create a class
that derives from MailMessage but which actually sends the mail to a small
app that will decide what to do with it, based on whether the source app is
in test or not.