A good, free, simple, non-"trial" local SMTP server for development?

Question

I'm running Windows Vista on my development machine... tried four SMTP servers so far (2 crashed, 2 turned out to be trial ware after being promoted as "free"). So I don't have IIS6 SMTP available.

Do you know any simple, hassle-free SMTP server that I can use? I need absolutely no bells and whistles. All it needs to do is listen on port 25 and send off emails.

Help?

Answer 1

Install sendmail in a virtual ubuntu machine and send email through that.

Answer 2

Check out Lamson, an SMTP server in Python.

Answer 3

You can hardly get freer or simpler than pysmtp

Answer 4

In Windows XP, there's a "SMTP service" in the IIS category under 'Add/Remove Windows Components' - not sure if Vista has that too.

Answer 5

Try Mercury Mail