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!
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One very useful feature would be to add up to date filtering systems in report only mode (eg SpamAssassin), SPF / DKIM / DMARC checks, etc. Without having your own up to date inbound MTA, it's very difficult to test your own mails for things that might be triggering spam filters.
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#12"No fake recipient email addresses anymore, use real ones!" This is a really bad idea. Keep PII far away from your test environments.
Plus, all it takes is one bad setting to accidentally spam all of those people.
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#13I don't like the idea of external SMTP for this when http://danfarrelly.nyc/MailDev/ can make everything works locally - and it's very easy to add in our Docker based projects.
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#14You can just use MailHog for free, it works pretty good.
https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
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#17I don't like the idea of external SMTP for this when http://danfarrelly.nyc/MailDev/ can make everything works locally - and it's very easy to add in our Docker based projects.
Yeah, there are a couple very good opensource options like this on github.
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#18I've been using this for ages, works like a charm
https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev
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#19Is this something people would actually pay for? Why not just set up a box running Postfix with a catch-all address and an outbound block on 25/TCP?
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#20"No fake recipient email addresses anymore, use real ones!" This is a really bad idea. Keep PII far away from your test environments.
Exactly. Wouldn't this be a good way to harvest a ton of valid email addresses?