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Would like to ask your opinion - I have a Dev/Testing Server which consists of real vendors'/customers' data. How can I ensure no real customers/vendors would receive any testing email e.g. low stock notification, order confirmation, etc.

Magento version. 1.9.2.4

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Main intention is to ensure that data is dummy or at least not used for sending out emails..... hope anyone can assist :) – jester xxx 3 hours ago
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The dev/testing data should be anonymized before imported into it to avoid leaking real customer data and also sending emails/notifications to any customers.

There are few tools that are helping do that without much hassle but you could also write a simple module based on Faker library.

From what I've tested and works:

You can also dump the data stripped for development - without any customer/sales data - from live database with n98-magerun command:

n98 db:dump --strip=@development

What above command does it takes care of all tables that shouldn't be moved to a development environment therefore all email queues etc are also purged.

Another solution is to implement a MailCatcher on your dev machine and configure Magento to use it instead of a production email config. This could be easily done with LimeSoda_EnvironmentConfiguration but as I've stated earlier - no real customers data should be exposed on dev environment.

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Thanks Versedi! let me digest the info! :D – jester xxx 2 hours ago
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You can achieve this through backend side.

Just go to System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Mail Sending Settings. There set Yes to Disable Email Communications option. This will prevent all email which are going through your application.

Hope that helps.

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Hi Rajeev, thanks for your reply!. By doing so - i still want emails to be sent to my own email address to see how is the mail notification like. Is there a way i can ensure all the vendor's/ customer's data is dummy instead? – jester xxx 3 hours ago
    
to do that, probably you need to write some custom code atleast. There is no default option to achieve that. – Rajeev K Tomy 2 hours ago
    
You can check emails wether with the tool provided under system > transactional emails. If you edit them directly in the source, you can add header and footer to the body to see how they look like. – Christophe Ferreboeuf 2 hours ago
    
Rajeev - noted. Thanks man! – jester xxx 2 hours ago
    
Hi Christophe - thanks for your reply. but it seems not what i was looking for :) – jester xxx 2 hours ago

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