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

codelogic, thanks, I did know about sending mail from the terminal. I think my question was not well thought out. I'm looking to login into my (local) mail server, access a mailbox, and do some parsing. So, I assume there's a mail server running locally but not sure how to access it. I'm using ruby:

pop = Net::POP3.new 'macbook.local'
pop.start 'me', 'mypass'

but get a Timeout::Error: execution expired