From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: "loopback" email setup for testing?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:42:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874my4s346.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874my4wbpr.fsf@igel.home>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I'm doing a bunch of email testing, and feel sort of stupid littering
>> one email account with bogus "test #24" messages from another, over and
>> over again. Not to mention it would be nice to be able to test gnus and
>> related functions while offline.
>
> You don't need to be online to be able to deliver mail locally.
That's what I meant -- if I could do the testing locally, I wouldn't
have to be online.
>> I've never used the unix mail spool -- is this something I could do
>> locally, in a way that gnus wouldn't know the messages weren't going
>> anywhere?
>
> You could add a procmail rule that just discards the mails.
Okay, thanks for the tip. I suppose that's something I'd have to install
and set up. I'll take a look...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-26 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-26 12:12 Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-26 12:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-26 12:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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