Problem: I have two environments. Development and Production. When I wanted to QA a new email feature in the Dev environment, it was always difficult because I didn't want our actual members to get emails from an environment they don't have access to.

I googled for a quick solution, but found nothing. Eventually I came up with a quick solution.

Solution: In the mail.vb file, I check to see if a text file on the C drive exists (ProdEmail.txt). If it doesn't, I simply change the MailTo address to an email account that I created just for testing purposes. That way, instead of emailing hundreds of our members, it sends every email to the designated email account, using a designated SMTP server. You could also use a registry value, or machine name.

Hopefully this helps someone down the road.

Anyone have better/easier solutions? Would love to hear about them.