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I agree with pwg that postfix is fairly straight forward but to answer your question there are debugging programs that capture email such as mailpit [1] but I don't know if you would consider that to be easier. I have not tried it out yet as I have always used smtp-sink for debugging part of postfix tools. [1] - https://github.com/axllent/mailpit. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
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