ball6847/maildump repository overview

⁠MailDump

MailDump is a python-based clone of the awesome MailCatcher_ tool. Its purpose is to provide developers a way to let applications send emails without actual emails being sent to anyone. Additionally lazy developers might prefer this over a real SMTP server simply for the sake of it being much easier and faster to set up.

⁠Features

Since the goal of this project is to have the same features as MailCatcher I suggest you to read its readme instead.

However, there is one unique feature in MailDump: Password protection for the web interface. If your MailDump instance is listening on a public IP you might not want your whole company to have access to it. Instead you can use an Apache-style htpasswd file. I have tested it with SHA-encrypted passwords but you can use any encryption supported by passlib.apache_.

⁠Usage

After installing maildump, run maildump --help for a list of available command line arguments. By default maildump runs its webserver on port 1080 and its SMTP server on port 1025 (both only available via localhost). Unless you specify a database file, received mails are lost when maildump terminates.

⁠Credits

The layout of the web interface has been taken from MailCatcher. No Copy&Paste involved - I rewrote the SASS/Compass stylesheet from MailCatcher in SCSS as there is a pure-python implementation of SCSS available. If whoever reads this feels like creating a new layout that looks as good or even better feel free to send a pull request. I'd actually prefer a layout that differs from MailCatcher at least a little bit but I'm somewhat bad at creating layouts!

The icon was created by Tobia Crivellari_.

⁠License

Copyright © 2013-2015 Adrian Mönnich ([email protected]⁠). Released under the MIT License, see LICENSE_ for details.

.. _MailCatcher: https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/blob/master/README.md⁠ .. _passlib.apache: http://pythonhosted.org/passlib/lib/passlib.apache.html⁠ .. _Tobia Crivellari: http://dribbble.com/TobiaCrivellari⁠ .. _LICENSE: https://github.com/ThiefMaster/maildump/blob/master/LICENSE⁠