web server sandbox (email part)

I want to create a sandbox server for web development since I am trying not to be a hermit and stay in my house all the time. It's spring and nice out.

Most of it is pretty easy, but i am not having any luck with the email side of it. I have some script i been playing around with and would like to set up something where it will email to the address but be contained inside the sandbox since i wont have internet access. I still need to read the email it send to make sure that the scripts are working so it would have to be contained in a way to be able to retrieve it from within itself. is there anything on this? I tried searching google, but didnt come out with anything that i got working.

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windows and smtp doesn't work great together

well the os doesn't really matter to me. I just looking for a testing box that would allow me to use the script to send email but contain itself so i can some web development while offline and still see if the mail parts are working with everything else

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then run a local LAMP configuration

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I always use internet SMTP servers with a php class that can handle that (Swift) so it doesn't matter if the site runs on my development server, my laptop, or the production server.

Of course you need to be connected in order to test things this way.

i ended up getting it to work. got the latest ubuntu server and installed lamp and mail server. set the mail server to local and set the few other options for that. then created a catch all for it and it works fine for a offline sandbox.

now i can goto the park and geek out while watching three's company with the big burny thing in the sky =P

What is a "web server sandbox"?

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What is a "web server sandbox"?

he means a server for development

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