Postfix configuration so that it just discards mail?

[Bill Earl]

Alex,  it looks like fakemail will work perfectly for what we're doing. 
Thanks!

Bill


Alex Dean wrote:
> Have you looked at FakeMail? 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakemail)  It's a simple MTA written
> in Perl.  It will listen to port 25 (or any other port you specify),
> and any mail it receives will be written to a file instead of sent. 
> You can look at the files it creates to see what emails your
> applications are 'sending'.
>
> alex
>
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Bill Earl wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> This seems like it should be a simple setup and that I'm overlooking
>> something really obvious, but since I am overlooking it, I could use
>> some assistance.
>>
>> We're setting up a series of debian systems that our developers will
>> use. These systems need to provide "sendmail" connections to some
>> applications that will run on them, but we don't want the mail to
>> actually be sent.  We're using postfix, and I can make a log of the
>> emails that are "sent", but what's the best way to make sure that the
>> system doesn't actually find a way to send the mail out to the world?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>
>> Bill
>>
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