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====== Fake mail server for debugging purposes ======

===== fakemail =====

//fakemail// is a fake mail server that captures emails as files for acceptance testing. This avoids the excessive configuration of setting up a real mail server and trying to extract mail queue content.

  wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakemail/files/latest/download -O fakemail-latest.tar.gz
  tar -xvf fakemail-latest.tar.gz
  cd fakemail-python-1.0/fakemail.py
  pyhthon ./fakemail.py --port 25 --path /tmp/mails/ --log=/tmp/fake --host domainXYZ

It also has a nice ''--background'' parameters to keep it running in background.

===== pure python =====

Python's standard distribution has a test SMTP server that you can test sending mail with. It will start a command line server on this console and it will print everything your server should send through SMTP.
To use it simply type:
  python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer domainXYZ:25