Comments on: A better way to test email sending functionality is to use your own SMTP Server http://www.nagarro.com/blog/a-better-way-to-test-email-sending-functionality-is-to-use-your-own-smtp-server/ Nagarro blog: software development, design, architecture and usability Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ryan Garaygay http://www.nagarro.com/blog/a-better-way-to-test-email-sending-functionality-is-to-use-your-own-smtp-server/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Ryan Garaygay Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:27:12 +0000 http://www.nagarro.com/blog/a-better-way-to-test-email-sending-functionality-is-to-use-your-own-smtp-server/#comment-374 it seems my markup didn't make it to the comment. anyways, you can find out about it from the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164241.aspx it seems my markup didn’t make it to the comment. anyways, you can find out about it from the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164241.aspx

]]> By: Ryan Garaygay http://www.nagarro.com/blog/a-better-way-to-test-email-sending-functionality-is-to-use-your-own-smtp-server/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Ryan Garaygay Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://www.nagarro.com/blog/a-better-way-to-test-email-sending-functionality-is-to-use-your-own-smtp-server/#comment-373 Another method I use from time to time (just to see if the code for sending email is ok - and even the format whatsoever) is the deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory" in system.net.mailSettings in your web.config under the configuration element you can have This will place the mails (if sent successfully) in that directory and you can open it with say outlook express which comes with windows by default or inspect the actual file by other means. Another method I use from time to time (just to see if the code for sending email is ok – and even the format whatsoever) is the deliveryMethod=”SpecifiedPickupDirectory” in system.net.mailSettings

in your web.config under the configuration element you can have

This will place the mails (if sent successfully) in that directory and you can open it with say outlook express which comes with windows by default or inspect the actual file by other means.

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