Tooting my mailhorn - MailHostMonkeyPatch

I have been writing some simple maillist software the last few days. A simple form that can send an email message to all members on a site.

It made me remember my MailHostMonkeyPatch which patches the zope/plone mailhost so that emails are saved in a directory structure instead of being sent to innocent recipients.

One use is that you don't need an smtp host to test your mail software.

Another is that you can see the emails that users will actually be receiving. In this case it has string substitution of member data in each email. So it is *very* practical to be able to see the mails.

If you are writing Plone software that uses the MailHost, then this is highly recommended for debugging.

http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/mailhost-monky/

A word of warning though. It works on MailHost and SecureMailHost, but I have only tried it up to Plone 2.5. So on 3.0 it might not work.