during development it’s sometimes necessary to test sending an email, sometimes you need to know if there’s something wrong with your code or if it’s something that the adminsitrator needs to fix on the mail server.
there’s an open source dummy mail server that you can use to check if the mail functionality is working, the utility just sits there in your system tray and pops up a balloon when it catches an email.
and when you click on the balloon you can get a list of all the messages received
here i have set it up to listen on port 26 this way it will not conflict with my running actual smtp server running on port 25
you can configure that using the options button on the bottom of the window
don’t forget to update the mail configuration section on the web.config/app.config in your application to run on the correct configuration
this is the link to download the client from codeplex website
this is a sample project so you can test the tool immediately
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