MailCatcher VS MailHog

Compare MailCatcher vs MailHog and see what are their differences.

MailCatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream. (by sj26)

MailHog

Web and API based SMTP testing (by mailhog)
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MailCatcher MailHog
15 46
6,170 13,214
- 1.5%
6.1 0.0
2 months ago about 1 month ago
Ruby Go
MIT License MIT License
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MailCatcher

Posts with mentions or reviews of MailCatcher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-13.

MailHog

Posts with mentions or reviews of MailHog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MailCatcher and MailHog you can also consider the following projects:

Mailpit - An email and SMTP testing tool with API for developers

maildev - :mailbox: SMTP Server + Web Interface for viewing and testing emails during development.

LetterOpener - Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

SendGrid - The Official Twilio SendGrid Golang API Library

go-imap - 📥 An IMAP library for clients and servers

Gomail - The best way to send emails in Go.

Postal - 📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail

go-dkim - DKIM package for golang

Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server

Exim - Exim Mail Transport Agent - source, testsuite and documentation

Mailman

go-simple-mail - Golang package for send email. Support keep alive connection, TLS and SSL. Easy for bulk SMTP.