Ticket #8638: 8638.diff

docs/topics/email.txt

@@ -350 +350 @@
     connection = SMTPConnection()   # Use default settings for connection
     messages = get_notification_email()
     connection.send_messages(messages)
+
+Preventing all e-mail sending
+-----------------------------
+
+The are moments when you may want Django to not send any e-mail at all, i.e.
+during development, the least intrusive way to do so is to use a "dumb" e-mail
+server that won't send received mail anywhere.
+
+The batteries included in Python already let you do so in a single command::
+
+    python /path/to/python/lib/python2.5/smtpd.py -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
+
+By doing this you'd have a simple SMTP server listening on port 1025 which will
+print to standard output any message received. You then only need to set the
+:setting:`EMAIL_HOST` and :setting:`EMAIL_PORT` accordingly, and you are set.
+