Configuring an e-mail server for local testing on ubuntu is a really fast an easy task. You just need to install and configure sendmail with these commands:
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sudo apt-get install sendmail
sudo sendmailconfig
The first command gets and installs sendmail from ubuntu repositories. The second command will run a configuration script that will ask you some questions about your configuration.
After you do this you have to add a fully qualified domain name to your hosts file or your server will not work.
Your hosts file should have something like this:
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127.0.0.1 yourdomain.dev
You can really write the domain name you want but it needs to be fully qualified, that means it should contain a top level domain, in my example dev.
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