Question

I’m looking for a SMTP server for windows which would help me debug email sending in my web applications. Preferably some soft which instead of sending emails would let me see them or just save them somewere.

Normally I have a flag in apps which makes them showing emails instead of sending it, but now I have to debug a large project PHP with not wrapper around email() used :/

thanks!

Answer 1

Just use “The Python”:

Download Python 2.7 from http://python.org/, then go to command line and write:

C:\> C:\Python27\python -m smtpd -d 0.0.0.0:25

Doing this you’ll be importing smptd module and getting debug output through the console. If you don’t specify an outgoing SMTP server (because using this mode it works like a proxy), any mail you try to send, will be discarded, but you’ll see it into the console.

Good luck!