One of the features I’ve wanted in ColdFusion since I started using it is a development email catch-all tool so that I can see messages as they come in and make sure I can test sites with live data without sending emails to people who don’t know I’m only testing. I’ve never had the time to whip up a mock dev server gateway, or some other tool and a single dev box in the cfadmin panel doesn’t seem practical for multiple developers (unless I could filter them by admin user).
There’s plenty of solutions to this problem, here’s the easiest of the _many_ I’ve tried. Any programming language, any engine. Easy.
To do this I’ve been using smtp4dev, its a great little utility to put on your dev machine. It has a super light footprint and is so painless to install and use and you can inspect headers
SMTP4Dev
“Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010 compatible dummy SMTP server. Sits in the system tray and does not deliver the received messages. The received messages can be quickly viewed, saved and the source/structure inspected. Useful for testing/debugging software that generates email.”
To use it:
download smtp4dev by clicking on the download button here
run the installer
point your ColdFusion admin mailserver to localhost
run the program from the start menu > smtp4dev
watch your emails come in… double click to open in your email prog (or install windows live mail free to open)
Dev Mock SMTP Server (Windows)
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One of the features I’ve wanted in ColdFusion since I started using it is a development email catch-all tool so that I can see messages as they come in and make sure I can test sites with live data without sending emails to people who don’t know I’m only testing. I’ve never had the time to whip up a mock dev server gateway, or some other tool and a single dev box in the cfadmin panel doesn’t seem practical for multiple developers (unless I could filter them by admin user).
There’s plenty of solutions to this problem, here’s the easiest of the _many_ I’ve tried. Any programming language, any engine. Easy.
To do this I’ve been using smtp4dev, its a great little utility to put on your dev machine. It has a super light footprint and is so painless to install and use and you can inspect headers
SMTP4Dev
“Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010 compatible dummy SMTP server. Sits in the system tray and does not deliver the received messages. The received messages can be quickly viewed, saved and the source/structure inspected. Useful for testing/debugging software that generates email.”
To use it:
Too easy.