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--- dev:email [2022/10/24 11:10] – created -- Thanks to Bill Erickson, Jason Stephenson, and Chris Sharp for this info! sandbergja
+++ dev:email [2023/10/19 09:47] (current) – [The easiest option: using a localhost email address and mutt] add mutt troubleshooting tip sandbergja
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   - As the root user (or with sudo): install mutt (apt-get install mutt)
+  - As opensrf, run the `mutt` command, and make sure you get an inbox without a warning.  If mutt gives you an error "No such file or directory", you can fix it with `touch $MAIL`.
+  - As root, make sure that sendmail is running (`service sendmail start` and `service sendmail status`)
   - Set the recipient email address to opensrf@localhost (for example, if you are testing a message sent to patrons, set your test patron's email address to opensrf@localhost)
   - Run the process that you'd like to check the email output of.
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 [[https://www.exim.org/|Exim]] has an easy setup in debian, with the exim configure script.  For testing purposes, set the email address to be your own.
+For testing with live data, exim makes it easy to rewrite recipients, so you can prevent test emails from being sent to real email addresses.
+Look for the "REWRITE CONFIGURATION" section in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
+Docs are at : https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-address_rewriting.html
+Something like this sends all mail to a local address.
+  ##Send all messages to root@localhost
+  *@* root@localhost Tbct
 ===== Option 3: postfix =====
 If you have access to your postfix production configuration, you can tweak it for your development environment.
+For those running a test server with live data that want to test email without worrying about accidentally emailing real people, one method is to force all email delivery to one local account.  A guide to do this in postfix is at [[https://www.euperia.com/wrote/how-to-configure-postfix-to-deliver-all-mail-to-one-mailbox]]