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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...