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by chrismeller 3368 days ago
The real issue there is that you're using PII in a test environment, not what address you send the test email to or what service it uses. Even if you were using a self-hosted mailtrap-like app you should be paranoid about PII ending up there (when was the last time someone did a security audit of that part of your infrastructure?).

There is value in being able to send test emails to a real email address, if for no other reason than you'd like to be able to test that the email address rewriter does turn off properly when you go from dev to QA.