Notification Test Mode

 

The Notification Service supports a "test mode" option, which can be helpful when you do not want to send emails to process participants until the solution is published to you production runtime environment. When enabled, the service sends emails to a comma-delimited set of email addresses set in the service configuration file--not the values configured in the Send E-mail Activity and Notification Messages.
 

You will know an email was sent using test mode, because the email contains a special header and footer. The header section displays the email addresses of the recipients that would have received the email had test mode been disabled. And the footer simply says Test.
 

Since test mode is enabled at the service level, the change applies to all sent by a specific service associated with a runtime environment.
 

Disabling the Notification Test Mode