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You can now optionally configure a "no store" domain. When inbucket receives a message destined for a user at that domain, it will accept the message but not store it to disk. This allows the same instance of Inbucket to be shared by people who wish to view email content and those who want to load test.
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.
Features
- Receive and store E/SMTP messages
- List messages in a mailbox
- Displays:
- Text content of a particular message
- Source of a message (headers + body text)
- HTML version of a message (in a new window)
- List MIME attachments with buttons to display or download
- Delete a message
- Purge messages after a configurable amount of time
- Optional load test mode; messages are never written to disk
It does not yet:
- Display inline attachments within HTML email
Screenshots
Viewing an email in Inbucket.
Watching metrics while Inbucket recieves and stores over 4,000 messages per minute.
Development Status
Inbucket is currently beta quality: it works but is not well tested.
Please check the issues list for more details.
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.
There are RedHat EL6 init, logrotate and httpd proxy configs provided.
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