C#/ASP.NET - Testing Email from localhost without SMTP Server

A lot of the time when developing apps, you need to send emails from your application. Developers need a way to test this and sometimes setting up a SMTP server is a little overkill. Thankfully, the .NET framework has a built in way for you to set this up so you can send the emails to your hard drive as opposed to a SMTP server.

Simply add the following code to your web.config or app.config...

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1. <system.net>
2. <mailSettings>
3. <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">
4. <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\Temp\" />
5. </smtp>
6. </mailSettings>
7. </system.net>

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Usage:

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1. System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage("fromEmail@email.com",
2. "toEmail@email.com", "Test", "Test Body");
3. System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
4. client.Send(mail);

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