Inbucket

Inbucket is an email testing service; it will accept messages for any email address and make them available to view via a web interface.

It allows web developers, software engineers and system administrators to quickly see the emailed output of ther applications. No per-account setup is required! Mailboxes are created on the fly as mail is received for them, and no password is required to browse the content of the mailboxes.

Inbucket has a built-in SMTP server and stores incoming mail as flat files on disk - no external SMTP or database daemons required.

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Development Status

Inbucket is currently alpha quality: it works but is not well tested.

It can:

• Receive SMTP and ESMTP messages and store them to disk
• List subject, sender and date of messages for a particular mailbox
• Parse MIME multipart emails
• Display the content of a particular message
• Display the source of a message (headers + body text)
• Display the HTML version of a message (in a new window)
• Delete a message

It does not yet:

• Display or download attachments

Installation

You will need a functioning Go installation for this to work.

Grab the Inbucket source code and compile the daemon:

go get -v github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket
go get -v github.com/gorilla/mux
go get -v github.com/gorilla/sessions
go get -v thegoods.biz/httpbuf
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket
go build main/inbucketd.go

Edit conf/inbucket.conf and tailor to your environment. It should work on most Unix and OS X machines as is.

./inbucketd conf/inbucket.conf

By default the SMTP server will be listening on localhost port 2500 and the web interface will be available at localhost:9000.

About

Inbucket is written in Google Go.

Inbucket is open source software released under the MIT License. The latest version can be found at https://github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket