Enter Apache James. Not long ago I came across this wonderful blog posting below about using Apache James 2.x in order to test application email notifications:

http://livingtao.blogspot.com/2007/05/testing-application-generated-emails.html

IT is amazing to see that this is pretty much the only dedicated blog posting on the internet regarding a seemingly very common issue. You would think that almost every serious enterprise application has to sent out email notifications, and be it solely for the “forgot password” feature
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Anyway, the steps illustrated in the blog above also work nicely for James 3.0
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Here are the simple steps to get things set up for Apache James 3.0: