OS X: sending mail to localhost

Question

For testing purposes I want send mail to my localhost user account rather than my webserver. I am unsure how to do this using mail.app. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

@Tautologistics

OSX does have a built-in MTA (SMTP server), to turn it on you can type:

sudo launchctl start org.postfix.master   

then you can send mail to localhost like you desire

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sample showing an SMTP server running from my machine running 10.6.1

>telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

>sudo launchctl start org.postfix.master

>telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 machinename.example.com ESMTP Postfix