Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

develmail.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 91 posts

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#21

Post by Someone1234 »

dlsym wrote: post #6

Please stop hijacking scrolling. Thankyou.

I already have "Scroll Anchoring" enabled in Chrome's flags, wish they'd add a flag just to disable page's ability to override scrolling completely.

Unfortunately "Scroll Anchoring" will likely never make it to a production build as it has odd interactions with sites that override scrolling to jump to new page elements (adverts in particular).

CNN Edition pages are particularly broken:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/03/europe/st-petersburg-russi...

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#22

Post by gnud »

cotillion wrote: post #10

"No fake recipient email addresses anymore, use real ones!" This is a really bad idea. Keep PII far away from your test environments.

I completely agree - but I use mailtrap.io quite a lot. It's wonderful to be able to make up any email address and have mail sent to it from your test system, without having to run your own mail infrastructure.

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#23

Post by mcbetz »

weirdo1 wrote: post #14

You can just use MailHog for free, it works pretty good. https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog

MailCatcher (Ruby, https://mailcatcher.me/) is a good and open solution for this, MailHog (Go) is open as well, even simpler to set up (no worries about Ruby versions) and has never caused me any trouble.

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#24

Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

r1ch wrote: post #11
pogo77 wrote: post #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!

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.

Do those services really have a feature like that? That seems like they wouldn't people to easily figure out if an email the have sent makes it through filters. Maybe I'm wrong, I have never had to worry about email in a business environment.

Re: Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service

#26

Post by amnah »

tony101 wrote: post #20
cotillion wrote: post #10

"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?

This was my first thought. I definitely wouldn't risk my client's privacy going through a third party like this.
Post reply on HN