A simple smtp server that can be used for testing
As a developer in many ocassions you will require to send emails. It is a pain to either modify the code so that the emails are directed to your account or use a special mailserver set by someone in the office that will forward all the emails to "developers@whatever.com".
Not only this is messy and dirty, it is a total overhead.
I am trying to solve this.
Essentially it extends the SMTPServer object in python, when a new mail is received it is stored into a simple sqlite3 database. The reason to store the mails (and even the attachments!) into a database is that it is fairly simple to search for them afterwards.
The easiest way is to use docker, either run it directly
docker run --rm --name loco-mail -it -p 5000:5000 -p 25:25 viatorinc/locomailOr via docker-compose
docker-compose upYou will need to expose ports 5000 and 25. Of course port 25 is the SMTP server, port 5000 is the web interface to check any new emails.
If you prefer not to run docker, simply run the python script directly
cd src
python3 locoServer.pyNote that you will need to install the following libraries
requests
gevent
flaskYou can install them with pip3
pip3 install requests gevent flask