Test sending Email locally

This one caught me by surprise...
There's a very cool thread going on at Stack Overflow about the Hidden Features of ASP.NET
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54929/hidden-features-of-asp-net

In that thread John Sheehan posted this trick:

While testing, you can have emails sent to a folder on your computer instead of an SMTP server. Put this in your web.config:
<system.net> <mailSettings> <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory"> <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\Temp\" /> </smtp> </mailSettings></system.net>

 

Well that's certainly handy.