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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: "loopback" email setup for testing?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 14:23:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874my4wbpr.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k370s4iy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:12:05 +0800")

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.

> 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.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26 12:23 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 [this message]
2014-07-26 12:42   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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