So I am developing a new application and it’s time to send some emails from my development machine. What’s the best way to handle this?

Rails will actually deliver emails in development mode, so I decided that’s what I wanted too. The thing is: I don’t normally run a mail server on my laptop. Well, after a quick Googling I found RapidoSMTP, a freeware app to enable Postfix for Mac OS X.

Of course, with Postfix running you’d want the messages to actually be delivered. Enter this blog post on how to do just that. Easy as pie.