How to pause IIS SMTP outbound mail delivery for testing p..

I am in the final stages of testing an app that scans a SQL Server database
via SQL CLR (VB2008) and sends email notifications based on a variety of data
conditions and deadlines.

I need to have the equivalent of a "transaction", so that if the beta code
fails somewhere along the line, I am not stuck with sending out 500 of 1000
potential messages, and then with the need to re-start in the middle so I
don't spam the first group again.

In my development environment, I can set IIS 7.0 (Vista Business) to "...
store e-mail in a pickup directory..." and not worry about anything leaking
out. I just delete all the outbound messages after spot-checking them through
Outlook Express.

I cannot find a similar option with IIS 6.0 (Win Server 2003).

Is there on option like this?

Or a way to have SMTP service accept messages, but pause the outbound
sending activity?

Currently I set Outbound Security to Basic Authentication and enter a bogus
user name, crude, but effective, but maybe also error-prone.

Would prefer a legit solution.

Extra bonus points for "elegant"

Why not use a Table to store all your emails and once successfully
completed, send out all the emails or else you can trash the email or if it
part of the transaction, you can rollback.

Regards,

Trevor Benedict
MCSD


"theartiststillknownasgarvin" <tommyg RemoveThis @nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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>I am in the final stages of testing an app that scans a SQL Server database
> via SQL CLR (VB2008) and sends email notifications based on a variety of
> data
> conditions and deadlines.
>
> I need to have the equivalent of a "transaction", so that if the beta code
> fails somewhere along the line, I am not stuck with sending out 500 of
> 1000
> potential messages, and then with the need to re-start in the middle so I
> don't spam the first group again.
>
> In my development environment, I can set IIS 7.0 (Vista Business) to "...
> store e-mail in a pickup directory..." and not worry about anything
> leaking
> out. I just delete all the outbound messages after spot-checking them
> through
> Outlook Express.
>
> I cannot find a similar option with IIS 6.0 (Win Server 2003).
>
> Is there on option like this?
>
> Or a way to have SMTP service accept messages, but pause the outbound
> sending activity?
>
> Currently I set Outbound Security to Basic Authentication and enter a
> bogus
> user name, crude, but effective, but maybe also error-prone.
>
> Would prefer a legit solution.
>
> Extra bonus points for "elegant"