Dave Borne wrote:
>> I have a (web) development computer w/o an SMTP server and want to test
>> form generated e-mail using a dummy SMTP server that delivers the mail
>> message to a file, or better yet, to a text editor instead of actually
>> sending it.
>
> Here's a quick and dirty script I use this for email testing purposes
> - it's windows specific, but that's easy enough to change.
Actually XP is where I need it.
Thanks
Bill
>
> import smtpd, os, time, asyncore
>
> class mailserver(smtpd.SMTPServer):
> def __init__(self):
> smtpd.SMTPServer.__init__(self, ('',25), None)
> print 'Mailsink listening on port 25'
>
> def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data):
> basepath='c:\\.maildump'
>
> print 'mail from: %s to: %s' %(mailfrom, repr(rcpttos))
> for rcpt in rcpttos:
> rcpt = rcpt.split('@')[0]
> try:
> os.mkdir(basepath+'\\'+rcpt)
> except OSError:
> pass
>
> f =
> file(basepath+'\\'+rcpt+'\\'+mailfrom+time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S'),
> 'w')
> f.write(data)
> f.close()
>
> def loop ():
> x = mailserver()
> try:
> asyncore.loop(timeout=2)
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> print'interrupt'
> x.close()
>
> if __name__=='__main__':
> loop()
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