Redirect outgoing mail

Haiyadragon · 11-22-2007, 02:47 AM

Hi guys,

I'm trying to setup my development machine to redirect all outgoing mail to my local inbox. I work on a lot of php sites that send lots of mail and I need none of that to actually leave my pc, but I need to be able to debug them.

I've searched my ass off on google but can't find anything. On Windows I used DevNull SMTP (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DevNullSmtp.jsp), but it would be better if I could see the messages in mutt (or other mail client).

So, any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

billymayday · 11-22-2007, 08:42 PM

Do you cae about incoming mail? You don't say what MTA you're using, so that makes it hard.

It may work to simply alias all addresses to yourself. How depends on the MTA

Haiyadragon · 11-23-2007, 11:24 AM

I don't get incoming mail directly to my pc so that's not a problem.

PHP calls sendmail by default. I have postfix installed. I could use something else, it doesn't really matter.

How do I alias all addresses to myself with postfix?

billymayday · 11-23-2007, 08:56 PM

Actually, I can't find a simple way to do it. Aliases only work on local delivery, and I'm having trouble finding a way to force everything local (for example mydestination = * won't work).

No so sure now

I'll keep playing

Berhanie · 11-25-2007, 05:51 PM

You could do something like this:

Code:

default_transport = local
luser_relay = bob

This would mail (almost) everything to the local user bob

Haiyadragon · 11-27-2007, 02:48 AM

I really appreciate it. But could you define "almost everything" for me?

Berhanie · 11-27-2007, 09:07 PM

Destination addresses in other address classes (local, virtual_mailbox, relay) are still delivered as usual. The same is true of addresses that have an explicit transport defined in the transport table.

For example, mail to the local user mary will be delivered to to /var/spool/mail/mary. In fact, since the local delivery agent doesn't look at domains, mail to mary@<any-domain> will be delivered to /var/spool/mail/mary.

chrism01 · 11-28-2007, 12:11 AM

Normally if I'm doing dev, I just have the email addr in a cfg file, so set it to me@localhost (or alias thereof).
When you deliver the site, just change the cfg file entry (if you need to deliver the cfg file again).