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Changeset 9793: SMTP testing documentation. I didn’t know this trick: running “python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025” will start up a simple SMTP server which dumps received e-mails to the terminal instead of forwarding them on.

# 29th January 2009, 1:35 pm / django, email, python, smtp, testing

Gmail and Django. I’d never considered using Gmail to send e-mail from applications, but it could be a useful way of avoiding having outbound e-mail falsely flagged as spam.

# 2nd July 2007, 9:46 pm / django, email, gmail, nathan-ostgard