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diff --git a/docs/topics/email.txt b/docs/topics/email.txt index dadb0f1842..3e93a5d44f 100644 --- a/docs/topics/email.txt +++ b/docs/topics/email.txt @@ -672,15 +672,19 @@ to a file that can be inspected at your leisure. Another approach is to use a "dumb" SMTP server that receives the emails locally and displays them to the terminal, but does not actually send -anything. Python has a built-in way to accomplish this with a single command:: +anything. The `aiosmtpd`_ package provides a way to accomplish this:: - python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025 + python -m pip install aiosmtpd -This command will start a minimal SMTP server listening on port 1025 of + python -m aiosmtpd -n -l localhost:8025 + +This command will start a minimal SMTP server listening on port 8025 of localhost. This server prints to standard output all email headers and the email body. You then only need to set the :setting:`EMAIL_HOST` and :setting:`EMAIL_PORT` accordingly. For a more detailed discussion of SMTP -server options, see the Python documentation for the :mod:`smtpd` module. +server options, see the documentation of the `aiosmtpd`_ module. + +.. _aiosmtpd: https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ For information about unit-testing the sending of emails in your application, see the :ref:`topics-testing-email` section of the testing documentation. |