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KeyStroke

Reputation: 1485

Which email service shall I use for testing sending emails?

I'm coding in PHP w/ CodeIgniter and I'd like to test some of the features in my app that send emails.

For some reason, I couldn't send emails through my email account in my local server (XAMPP), and I also don't want some SPAM filter to think I'm spamming while I'm testing.

So is there any email service that I can use for testing purposes? preferably one that doesn't enforce SSL, since I have problems getting that to work on my local server.

Appreciate your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 421

Answers (3)

Don Kirkby
Don Kirkby

Reputation: 56230

I like to set up a test SMTP service on my development machine and just send to that. There are several good options listed under this question.

Upvotes: 0

jaltiere
jaltiere

Reputation: 1118

If you just want to test the application functionality, check out Papercut. This utility simulates the sending of email without having to set up a mail server, works great!

edit: had wrong link.

Upvotes: 0

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449703

As long as you're not sending out dozens or hundreds of test E-Mails, use whatever your everyday E-Mail provider is (e.g. GMail). Set the SMTP server of your mailing function to point to Google's. (I think SSL is optional with GMail, but I may be wrong.)

If your mailing library doesn't support using an external SMTP server, switch to a different one. But I think CodeIgniter has you covered there.

Upvotes: 1

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