XF 2.3 Testing email theme in dev?

[eDaddi]

I've got $config['enableMail'] = false in my dev config and dev is a full backup. I'm needing to test the look/feel of the email theme changes. Anyway to do that and keep members from being emailed anything?

 

[frm]

The only thing that comes to mind are either update all user's emails to something else, or go to /admin.php?users/email and email just 1 username.

If it's a dev server, changing emails shouldn't be an issue. I would do something like noreply.1@yourdomain.com so they dont bounce and give you a hard hit for bounces if using something like Amazon SES) or get your IP banned for spamming @gmail, as you'll receive them all. But, if you don't want to do that, just try not to trigger an email event by liking a post or something. Strictly work from ACP sending out emails to just you.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I run this query in the database which removes all emails except my own in usergroup 4

UPDATE xf_user
SET email = ''
WHERE NOT FIND_IN_SET(4, secondary_group_ids)

 

[benFF]

I've got $config['enableMail'] = false in my dev config and dev is a full backup. I'm needing to test the look/feel of the email theme changes. Anyway to do that and keep members from being emailed anything?

I use this

GitHub - rnwood/smtp4dev: smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing

smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing - rnwood/smtp4dev

github.com

 

[eDaddi]

I would do something like noreply.1@yourdomain.com so they dont bounce and give you a hard hit for bounces if using something like Amazon SES) or get your IP banned for spamming @gmai

I was thinking about adding a double @ to the email so it wouldn't deliver to member and I could undo it. Good call on that effect.

I run this query in the database which removes all emails except my own in usergroup 4

UPDATE xf_user
SET email = ''
WHERE NOT FIND_IN_SET(4, secondary_group_ids)

I think I'll go with something like this. Duplicate the xf_user if needed later and empty the field in the main table.

I use this

GitHub - rnwood/smtp4dev: smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing

smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing - rnwood/smtp4dev

github.com

Thats slick!