I was upgrading The Watcher module to Drupal 7 today and found myself having to test a lot of email sending. Looking around in vain for a fake email system to log emails to the disk instead of sending them out into the interwebs to risk getting called the dreaded meat product, I decided to write one using the new pluggable mail system interface in Drupal 7.

Previous versions of this have existed in the past, but I couldn’t find anything in devel currently. Here’s how it works. If you want to save your mails locally to files:

Step 1

Install Devel

Step 2

Apply this patch (until it gets committed) – Review here: http://drupal.org/node/625062.

Step 3

In your settings.php file:

That’s it!

Unless you set anything else mails are saved to files/mails/$to-$subject-$datetime.mail.txt

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