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Testing Added nearly two years ago and last edited nearly two years ago

In my last full-time job I had to test some account creation and modification code. Certain actions sent emails when they were successful and I needed to find out whether the emails were received. I had to do this over multiple accounts, which ordinarily would involve multiple email addresses.

One solution might have been to setup multiple sendmail aliases on a local network.

The solution I used involved the website Mailinator. Using mailinator it is easy to setup multiple fake accounts in your code with different (and random) email addresses.

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