A handy SMTP mail server useful for local and team application development.
Created By: Adam Presley
What is MailSlurper?
MailSlurper is a small SMTP mail server that slurps mail into oblivion! MailSlurper is perfect for individual developers or small teams writing mail-enabled applications that wish to test email functionality without the risk or hassle of installing and configuring a full-blown email server. It's simple to use! Simply set up MailSlurper, configure your code and/or application server to send mail through the address where MailSlurper is running, and start sending emails! MailSlurper will capture those emails into a database for you to view at your leisure.
Designed for Developers
If you are an individual developer or a member of a team, MailSlurper can help you. A simple, effective user-interface allows you to quickly find and inspect emails sent out of your applications.
Powerful
Small and fast, MailSlurper easily runs on developer laptops, commodity hardware, or small virtual machines. It is designed to handle thousands of concurrent connections and work with various databases: SQLite, MSSQL, and MySQL.
Open Source
Open source product licensed under the permissive MIT license, it is both developer and enterprise-friendly. No vendor lock-in, free to use and modify!
Features
Responsive web-based interface
Themes
Search for mails by subject, body, sender, or recipient
Save frequently used searches
Captures attachments
Server runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux!
Configurable to run on any address and port
Support for SSL
Basic user authentication
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Get Started
Download
To begin first you must download the version of MailSlurper for your operating system. If you are on a Mac running OSX you will need to download the file named mailslurper-x.x-osx.zip. If you are going to run MailSlurper on Windows download the file named mailslurper-x.x-windows.zip.
Configuration
The next step is to extract the contents somewhere. It does not particularly matter where. Once extracted you will wish to review the configuration details in config.json. For this example let's say you are going to run MailSlurper on your local machine. There are three addresses and ports that need to be configured.
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Web application address and port
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Services address and port
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SMTP server address and port
Let's see what that might look like if we wanted to access the web-based administrator using http://localhost:8080, with services running on port 8888 and the SMTP server running on port 25.
Running Mailslurper
Now that you have MailSlurper configured all that is left to do is run it. Run the executable file named mailslurper for OSX, mailslurper.exe for Windows. Now open your favorite web browser and browse to http://localhost:8080. Congratulations! MailSlurper is now ready to slurp up mail for any of your applications and development projects set up to send mail to localhost on port 25!
Full Documentation
For more information on installing, configuring and using MailSlurper visit the Github wiki site.
License
MailSlurper is developed and maintained by Adam Presley for developers and teams, and it is 100%free under the MIT License. This means the following.
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You may use this product for personal and/or commercial use.
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You may make modifications to the source code
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You may distribute the source and/or compiled code
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The work is provided "as is". You may not hold me the author liable
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You must include copyright information in all copies and uses of this work
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You must include the license notice in all copies or uses of this work
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