After reading the article, you can create your own email sandbox environment (fake smtp server).
About
Mailpit is a free test environment for email sendings. When you need to test email sendings without use real email accounts and SMTP server, Mailpit is the best open-source solution for it. It comes with default two ports (8025 for the web UI and 1025 for SMTP). Additionally, it has an API for advanced use cases.
It is a free and self-hosted solution. You can send thousands test emails with Mailpit.
Installation
MacOS (Brew)
If you’ve brew package manager, you can install with it;
brew install mailpit
If you want to start Mailpit as a service, you can apply the follow command after the installation.
brew services start mailpit
Linux & MacOS (Bash Script)
You can run the following bash script on MacOS if you dont have not brew package manager.
sudo bash < <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axllent/mailpit/develop/install.sh)
After the installation, if you want to start Mailpit as a service, you can follow the instructions on the systemd integration or the supervisor integration page.
Windows
You can use static binary file for Windows. Static binaries can always be found on the releases page. The mailpit binary can extracted and copied to your $PATH, or simply run as ./mailpit.
Other Options
Other installation options are using with docker or building from source.
Testing
SMTP Test
Create a text file email.txt with the following contents.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Test Email
Hello, world.
This is a test email.
Then run the following command to send your test email:
mailpit sendmail < email.txt
Accessing to Mailpit Web UI
You can access to web UI via http://localhost:8025
Screenshots of Mailpit
Email
Inbox
Usage
Mailpit for Laravel
You can update your .env file as the below.
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=localhost
MAIL_PORT=1025
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="[email protected]"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
Alternatives to Mailpit
- Mailtrap.io - Fremium
- Mailmug - Fremium