localmail 0.5.0

Running localmail

twistd localmail

This will run localmail in the background, SMTP on port 2025 and IMAP on 2143, It will log to a file ./twistd.log. Use the -n option if you want to run in the foreground, like so.

twistd -n localmail

You can pass in arguments to control parameters.

twistd localmail --imap <port> --smtp <port> --http <port> --file localmail.mbox

You can have localmail use random ports if you like. The port numbers will be logged. TODO: enable writing random port numbers to a file.

twisted -n localmail --random

Embedding

If you want to embed localmail in another non-twisted program, such as test runner, do the following.

import threading
import localmail

thread = threading.Thread(
   target=localmail.run,
   args=(2025, 2143, 8880, 'localmail.mbox')
)
thread.start()

...

localmail.shutdown_thread(thread)

This will run the twisted reactor in a separate thread, and shut it down on exit.

If you want to use random ports, you can pass a callback that will have the ports the service is listening on.

import threading
import localmail

def report(smtp, imap, http):
    """do stuff with ports"""

thread = threading.Thread(
   target=localmail.run,
   args=(0, 0, 0, None, report)
)
thread.start()

0.4 (2015-08-14)

• support for using random port numbers

• available as a universal wheel, general packaging improvements

• Simple HTTP interface for browsing mail (requires jinja2)

• Support writing to mbox file

• Fixed date to work with mutt, example muttrc included in package.

0.3 (2013-05-24)

• Multipart message support [via Ed Jannoo]

• IMAP UID support

• Support python 2.6, 2.7 and pypy, tested via tox

0.2 (2012-11-13)

• Initial public release

• Basic SMTP/IMAP server

Contributors

The following people contributed directly or indirectly to this project:

• Ed Jannoo <ed@azordi.com>