iliadmitriev/mailcatcher repository overview

⁠MailCatcher

MailCatcher - is a ruby powered alpine image, based on https://mailcatcher.me⁠. Its purpose is to provide a way of testing applications wich uses emails (i.e. sign in with email or email confirmation)

⁠Features

1. Simpl SMTP server
2. WEB interface

⁠Usage

⁠Build

Build image from Dockerfile

docker build -t mailcatcher -f Dockerfile ./

⁠Run

Create and run docker container from image

You need two tcp ports:

• 1080 - web interface port
• 1025 - smtp port

docker run -d -p 1080:1080 -p 1025:1025 --name mailcatcher mailcatcher

⁠Test

curl \
    -F '=(;type=multipart/alternative' \
        -F '=<sample.txt;type=text/plain' \
        -F '=<sample.html;type=text/html' \
    -F '=)' \
    -F '[email protected];encoder=base64;headers="Content-ID: sample.png"' \
    --url 'smtp://localhost:1025' \
    -H "Subject: Test message of 3 parts" \
    --mail-from '[email protected]' \
    --mail-rcpt '[email protected]'

⁠Logs

docker logs -f mailcatcher

⁠Web interface

Address http://localhost:1080/⁠

• HTML - html view of email
• Plain text - plain text email alternative
• Source - source code of email
• Download - download email in eml format
• Clear - delete all emails