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Having a need in POP3 server for my debugging purposes I have used this script. Letting it to be here in case of anyone would need to do something similar. Usage is: $ python pypopper.py 110 email_file.eml " " " pypopper: a file-based pop3 serve r Useage :     python pypopper.py <port> <path_to_message_file > " " " import logging import os import socket import sys import traceback logging . basicConfig ( format = " %(name)s %(levelname)s - %(message)s " ) log = logging . getLogger ( " pypopper " ) log . setLevel ( logging . INFO ) class ChatterboxConnection ( object ) : END = " \r \n " def __init__ ( self , conn ) : self . conn = conn def __getattr__ ( self , name ) : return getattr ( self . conn , name ) def sendall ( self , data , END = END ) : if len ( data ) < 50 : log . debug ( " send: %r " , data )    ...

You often have 'situations' when you developing Contact forms, or any other forms which have to send emails with python. You have to install or have working SMTP server on your Dev machine like say 'monstrous' Sendmail or something like it. It can cause errors in Django/Python like [Errno 61] Connection refused: [ Errno 61 ] Connection refused But python has it handled for you. Python's standard distribution has a test SMTP server that you can test sending mail with. It actually does not sends anything. But you can examine outgoing email message like you've actually send it. Type something like: python - m smtpd - n - c DebuggingServer localhost : 1025 It will start a command line server on this console and it will print everything your server should send through SMTP. Also make sure to modify mail sending code to use your non standart port number like so: server = smtplib . SMTP ( SERVER , 1025 ) server . sendmail ( FROM , TO , message...