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298 points mooreds | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

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nwgo ◴[18 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42176594[source]▶

I don't understand. What are use cases for using this or Mailpit? Can't you just create a new email address on existing server and check it? Why do you need different setup and different infra?

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1. hoistbypetard ◴[18 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42176953[source]▶

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Local development of an app that will send email. For example, when I'm building a django app, running it via `runserver`, I don't want it to go to an external mail server. And using the console logger for SMTP gets really noisy. Being able to point my browser at Mailpit's web UI lets me see all the messages the app has sent.

It's particularly nice for things like magic links and testing that email confirmations are working.

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MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server