My general task is following:
- We have workable application that sends mails to the users (that are registered in this application on some actions);
- Mails are sending using sendmail tool;
- In order to test changes our sendmail tool uses smart host. And in reality emails weren't sent because otherwise on the testing step we will spam real users.
- I don't have any acces to this smart host configuration and it's hardly ever to speak with admins who configured this.
- Now I need to add bounce back tracking for emails that are sent. And With currect smart_host configuration it's impossible to do.
- So i need some alternative solution how to perform testing. From one side I can't send real emails (because it will spam real users) from other side I need to have possiblity to reproduce bounce backs in order to proceed with development.
Could you please suggest some documentation to quickly do this ?
In general I need:
- Another SMTP server that will be used by SendMail tool;
- This server should have some rules to configure Bounce Back feature. As Example When I send some email email is bounced;
- And After that I will be able to process this bounce approipriately.
Or could you please provide some alternative vision how bounce backs could be tested ?