[olug] SMTP server for development?

[DYNATRON tech]

one technique i like to use for closing a development box to the outside
world is to give it an arbitrary gateway address.
i just use an address to a box that will dump the traffic, or an address
that doesn't even exist...although the latter solution creates a bunch of
unsatisfied ARP requests, it's not usually anything that will create a
significant amount of network traffic.

not sure if this will work for your situation, but it works for me when i
need to isolate a system to the local network.


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy all,
>
> I recently ran across a cool open source project called smtp4dev
> (Windows/.NET).  It is basically a dummy SMTP server where you can view all
> emails sent to it w/o them actually being sent on to the outside world.
>
> As it is a .NET app I thought maybe I could compile it w/Mono, but I
> wondered if there wasn't already an app like this for Linux.  Or maybe
> Sendmail or Postfix could be configured to serve this purpose (i.e., dead
> end SMTP server).  I have zero experience in either of them, so smtp4dev has
> a lot of appeal because of its ease of set up and use.
>
> smtp4dev
> http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
>
> Anyway, just looking for some ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric P.
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