Trap and test AWS SES emails locally

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  • local-ses

    Trap and test AWS SES emails locally

  • Mailpit

    An email and SMTP testing tool with API for developers

  • There are several alternatives. Most of them, including mailcatcher, seem to be unmaintained.

    Mailpit is an alternative that has regular updates: https://mailpit.axllent.org/

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  • mailslurper

    Local, web-based mail server application. Slurp mails into oblivion!

  • Yeah thanks for this, I’ve been using it for years! Recently switched to mailslurper:

    https://github.com/mailslurper/mailslurper

  • mox

    modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email

  • Pitching my own: https://github.com/mjl-/mox has a "mox localserve" subcommand that runs a mail server on localhost for testing, including a pedantic mode and special addresses that cause failure conditions you may want to test for. This is actually a full mail server (SMTP, IMAP and much more) and it comes with a webmail client. The "localserve" mode was just so easy to implement that I couldn't resist.

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