development smtp server for windows [closed]

There are a few:

• SMTP Impostor (formerly Antix SMTP Server), NuGet package - looks very good
• Dumbster - fake SMTP server under Apache license

Or you can also set it up in your web.config to just store the e-mails in the file system (the config way of what "silky" has proposed in code):

<system.net>     <mailSettings>        <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">           <specifiedPickupDirectory              pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\temp\mails\"/>        </smtp>     </mailSettings>  </system.net>  

Marc

I know that this is an old post however I also know about http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/ which I would also recommend. It sits on you task bar and then pops up when you send emails to it. It allows you to then examine the email in quite some depth.

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This advice only valid if you're using .NET

Check this out. If you set it appropriately, it will just store your emails on disk :)

SmtpClient client = ...;client.PickupDirectoryLocation = @"c:\foo\emails\"; //"client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.SpecifiedPickupDirectory;

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Just in case some people don't get it, this means you don't need another SMTP server for test/dev, you just set the variable appropriately.

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For completeness, as marc_s shows below, you can set this in configs nicely via:

<system.net>     <mailSettings>        <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">           <specifiedPickupDirectory              pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\foo\emails\" />        </smtp>     </mailSettings>  </system.net>