How is this different than just sending yourself the email?
Because if you use a real smtp server:
- Sometimes setup are not easy (like using gmail in a rails app)
- It's not instant
- You need a internet connection.
MockSMTP.app - e-mail testing for Mac OS X
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Re: MockSMTP.app - e-mail testing for Mac OS X
#12Interesting, but the problem with writing HTML e-mail is rarely real-browser testing, but rather, testing the convoluted filtering/rendering of the various webmail clients (Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail).
This is not the goal of mocksmtp. It's for first level testing. Checking html and correcting rendering with webkit. Then of course you need to test other mail/weblmail reader or with litmus as mention before.
It's like make HTML/CSS for a webpage. First level, you create you HTML/CSS code and test it with Firefox usually. Then when you are happy with, you check safari/chrome and debug IE :).