MailHog
Email testing tool with a fake SMTP server
MailHog is an email testing tool that provides a fake SMTP server for developers, capturing messages and presenting them in a web UI. It includes an API and chaos-testing features.
Key features
- Fake SMTP for testing
- Web UI and JSON API
- Chaos monkey testing
- Single Go binary
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 16.1k GitHub stars
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