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Web and API based SMTP testing

22 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 3 stories, 19 comments · first 2015-08-28 · latest 2025-01-02

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  1. …you need and runs locally. Going to the cloud is no different from creating free emails to test. https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by Oras · 2025-01-02 · in Show HN: MailMock – Simplified Email Testing for Developers
  2. I actively endorse https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog if you want something more Go-flavoured or operationalised. But it is also "complete."
    comment by sj26 · 2024-11-19 · in MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server
  3. I prefer self-hosting MailHog: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by duskwuff · 2024-07-21 · in Show HN: A fake SMTP server for software integration testing
  4. …need to test the contents of the email then we use Mailhog these days. Can’t recommend it enough. https://github.com/mailhog/Mailhog
    comment by junto · 2024-04-28 · in .test
  5. There's also MailHog https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by linsomniac · 2023-09-09 · in MailDev is a simple way to test a project's generated email during development
  6. …it's relevant beyond Rails). MailCatcher ( https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher ) and MailHog ( https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog ) are super handy and easy to run locally. Both spin up an SMTP server which you can direct mail to, and give…
    comment by hbroadbent · 2023-08-13 · in Preview emails with letter_opener, MailCatcher and MailHog
  7. Also, Mailhog: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by mbork_pl · 2023-06-24 · in Mailpit – An email and SMTP testing tool with API
  8. Also https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog - although it hasn't been updated in a while. But great for testing mail functionality in applications you're developing.
    comment by koffiezet · 2022-04-11 · in SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
  9. …Here are a few projectsfor that: - https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher ( https://mailcatcher.me ) - https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog - https://github.com/maildev/maildev ( http://maildev.github.io/maildev/ ) -…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-04-26 · in Pg_tmp – Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL database
  10. Another alternative that I've been using for ~5 years is MailHog https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by 0172 · 2020-11-23 · in Maildev: An SMTP server and web interface for testing emails during development
  11. …in 2013 when it was very popular among the Ruby and PHP community. Later, I switch to MailHog — https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog — written in Go during the Docker boom. I have since stopped writing integrations tests for emails but I…
    comment by guessmyname · 2020-05-06 · in Mailcatcher
  12. …to try Rails again and see what I think of it now. [0] https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ [1] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by belak · 2019-09-09 · in Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
  13. …MailHog[0]. I've had nothing but good experiences with it, and it was dirt simple to install. [0] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by jwcrux · 2017-10-05 · in Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service
  14. …is built with Go so you dont need to compile etc - it just runs. I find it easier to install. [0] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by laurencei · 2017-08-04 · in Mailit, A Tiny REST API to Send Emails
  15. …as a MITM, where the webmail interface lets you "release" messages you actually want to send out: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/blob/master/docs/CONFIG.m...
    comment by peller · 2017-04-03 · in Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service
  16. https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog looks like a really nice alternative, where you can also test HTML mail, etc. Personally, my local SMTP actually sends email, because I DO want legitimate email (mutt, cron) though, so I'd be scared to…
    comment by hobarrera · 2017-04-03 · in Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service
  17. You can just use MailHog for free, it works pretty good. https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by weirdo1 · 2017-04-03 · in Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service
  18. For a better quality Golang mock SMTP server, check out MailHog. https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
    comment by spongeboy · 2016-04-23 · in 87 line golang smtp server that just writes emails to a txt file
  19. Along with this and Kong there is also https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog for testing SMTP failure scenarios on outgoing email.
    comment by vangale · 2015-08-28 · in Toxy, a hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios