Disable outgoing email

[Logan]

For the purpose of a test board, is it possible to disable email notifications from the board? While I was testing BETA 5, I posted in some topics that members were subscribed to and they were sent a notification linking them to the test board. I emptied the tracker table after that of course.

I think even if you leave the outgoing email address blank in the email settings, email is still sent... it'd be nice if you left that blank, outgoing email was disabled.

[Mark]

On 2.3? Add to conf_global.php

$INFO['fake_mail'] = true;

Instead of sending mails it will log them as to files in the /_mail folder (which should obviously be created)

[Michael]

Since it is a test site you're talking about it shouldn't matter too much, but just be sure to check on the size of the contents of that folder every so often. If lots of emails are going to be saved in there, it might get pretty large.

[Logan]

[quote name='Μark' date='01 May 2009 - 03:12 PM' timestamp='1241201579' post='1799274']
On 2.3? Add to conf_global.php



Instead of sending mails it will log them as to files in the /_mail folder (which should obviously be created)

Ah, didn't know about that parameter. But no this is for 3.0, does it still work?

  $INFO['fake_mail'] = true;

  

[Mark]

I had to check, but yes it should :)

[bfarber]

Yes, that works for 3.0. It's how my localhost dev environment is setup.

[Connor T]

So with this added, I can safely test the mass mail, knowing that my members from my upgrade won't get the email?

[bfarber]

Yes