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.

Screenshots

Viewing an email in Inbucket.

Watching metrics while Inbucket handles over 4,000 messages per minute.

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
Purge messages after a configurable amount of time

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

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

$GOPATH/bin/inbucket $GOPATH/src/github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket/etc/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

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