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iruoy ◴[18 Nov 24 18:48 UTC] No.42175560[source]▶

>>42174231 (OP) #

A tool like this is very useful, but this one isn't being maintained anymore. MailHog isn't either.

MailPit, MailCrab and smtp4dev are modern alternatives.

https://github.com/axllent/mailpit

https://github.com/tweedegolf/mailcrab

https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev

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Onavo ◴[19 Nov 24 00:10 UTC] No.42178720[source]▶

>>42175560 #

What’s the easiest way to receive email programmatically without having to resort to a hosted service like SES? Is the SMTP protocol simple enough that it can be implemented in for example a serverless lambda?

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1. kilroy123 ◴[19 Nov 24 03:24 UTC] No.42179838[source]▶

>>42178720 #

For my site https://aichat.email this is how I do this:

SendGrid Inbound Parse --> node.js server --> back to user

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MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server