Testing SMTP with .net

Question

I need to configure a SMTP server for testing my website which sends emails (for registration confirmation etc).

I dont actually want the email to be sent, I just w

Answer 1

In .NET, SmtpClient can be configured to send email by placing it in a pickup directory.

The default constructor of SmtpClient takes its settings from app.config, so for a test environment we can configure it as follows.

MSDN reference - app.config mailSettings element http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w355a94k.aspx