Local Mail Server During Development
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 05:09 on 30 November 2018
Sometimes, you need to send email during software development, and you need to be able to receive the email, even if the addresses are fake (say, to @example.org) and what have you.
The node package, fake-smtp-server is a handy tool for providing a server to receive the mail, and an interface for viewing the email that was sent.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/fake-smtp-server
Install globally on a system with:
npm install -g fake-smtp-server
Start it up:
fake-smtp-server
If you want to have it on port 25 as most mail servers expect, run as root:
sudo fake-smtp-server -s 25
View the emails received (by default) at
You can change that port, too:
sudo fake-smtp-server -h 8888
A few other configurations, and an API. Great little tool.
Usage:
fake-smtp-server [OPTIONS] [ARGS]
Options:
-s, --smtp-port [NUMBER] SMTP port to listen on (Default is 1025)
--smtp-ip [IP] IP Address to bind SMTP service to (Default is 0.0.0.0)
-h, --http-port [NUMBER] HTTP port to listen on (Default is 1080)
--http-ip [IP] IP Address to bind HTTP service to (Default is 0.0.0.0)
-w, --whitelist STRING Only accept e-mails from these adresses. Accepts
multiple e-mails comma-separated
-m, --max [NUMBER] Max number of e-mails to keep (Default is 100)
-a, --auth STRING Enable Authentication
--headers Enable headers in responses
-k, --no-color Omit color from output
--debug Show debug information
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