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Linked List: Fake or Mock SMTP Servers for Email Testing

To test SMTP integration, you can either send emails using the production SMTP or you can run a test SMTP server just for testing. But its not easy for every developer in your team to do that or make it part of your CI/CD. This is where Fake or Mock SMTP servers play a role. They can run on a developers machine and expose an SMTP endpoint to connect and send test emails. They usually have web access to view the test emails to check formatting etc, manually. Some of them also expose a web API to retrieve the content for CI/CD integration. Here are some of my favorite mock SMTP servers.

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Sending Email to Self with Swaks

Email is one of those protocols that still works. It reaches me where I am. It also has various clients and libraries that work reasonably well. And it can carry almost any kind of content (Of course, there are limitations attachment size and type, etc). I use it every day, including emailing to myself.

How to recover shift deleted mails in outlook 7

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How to recover shift deleted mails in outlook

Thanks to Sandeelp GL for sending this tip. 1. Start –> Run2. Run the command regedit.exe.3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options4. Add a new double word ‘DumpsterAlwaysON’ of type REG_DWORD with the value 1 in Hex5. Close the registry editor.6. Restart Outlook.7. Go to Tools –> Recover Deleted Items. That should recover your deleted emails....

Enabling multiple timezones in outlook 0

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Enabling multiple timezones in outlook

Working across time zones is pretty confusing when your scheduling meetings. You may want to check both the clocks to see if it is OK. If both the time lines are displayed on your outlook calendar then it is little easy to do it. Outlook by default displays only one timezone. To enable...

Better (and multiple) out of office responders using rules in outlook 2

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Better (and multiple) out of office responders using rules in outlook

Email is my basic form of communication. The trouble starts when I am out of station. I usually travel to those places where they don’t even have cyber cafes. Only way to contact me is on my mobile.When I setup my auto – holiday responder it becomes very difficult what to disclose and...

Top 7 email tips for office users 6

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Top 7 email tips for office users

Below are some points I remember every time I send a mail. Don’t enter the email address into to or cc before composing the mail. There is a chance to hit ctrl+enter (send) any time. Leading to half composed mails being sent. Hence compose the mails first. Then add to and cc Attach...