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Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

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Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#2
We created this for our usage, but decided it could be useful for other people too :)

It's still under development, so there are not many features yet, but we would like to hear your opinions and what could we improve or add.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

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I missed the signup button as it was white and the image HD not loaded.

I suggest adding another signup button at the bottom of the page. After I read the features I scrolled back up to look for a signup button which is when I noticed it was white as background image had loaded.

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#8
So this is useful for:

1. developing software that sends e-mails, but not having to set up a test environment/pray you don't break production, and

2. testing out new software that insists on sending e-mail when you're just one person in a small/localhost-only environment.

I love it.

One thing I'm sad to see is that there seems to be no TLS/STARTTLS support on the side of develmail. Given that TLS can be a bit finicky to set up and that plaintext SMTP is ideally deprecated as fast as possible, it may be worth a thought to just Let's Encrypt it.

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