mailtrap 0.1.3

An SMTP server that makes all received mails accessible via a web interface and REST API.

MailTrap

MailTrap is a SMTP server designed to run in your dev/test environment, that is designed to catch any email you or your application is sending, and display it in a web interface instead if sending to real world. It help you prevents sending any dev/test emails to real people, no matter what address you provide. Just point your app/email client to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 and look at your emails on http://127.0.0.1/1080.

MailTrap is built on shoulders of:

• MailCatcher - original idea comes of this tool by Samuel Cochran.
• MailDump - base source code of MailTrap, by Adrian Mönnich.

If you like this tool, just say thanks.

Current stable version

0.1.3

Features

• Catches all mail and stores it for display.
• Shows HTML, Plain Text and Source version of messages, as applicable.
• Rewrites HTML enabling display of embedded, inline images/etc and opens links in a new window.
• Lists attachments and allows separate downloading of parts.
• Download original email to view in your native mail client(s).
• Command line options to override the default SMTP/HTTP IP and port settings.
• Mail appears instantly if your browser supports [WebSockets][websockets], otherwise updates every thirty seconds.
• Runs as a daemon in the background, optionally in foreground.
• Keyboard navigation between messages
• Optionally password protected access to webinterface
• Optionally password protected access to SMTP (SMTP AUTH)

How to use

After installing MailTrap, just run command:

mailtrap

Now send emails through smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 and look at them on http://127.0.0.1:1080.

If you want more details, run:

mailtrap --help

for more info, ie. how to protect access to gui.

Rails

For your rails application just set in your environments/development.rb:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => '127.0.0.1', :port => 1025 }
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

Django

To configure Django to work with MailTrap, add the following to your projects' settings.py:

if DEBUG:
    EMAIL_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
    EMAIL_PORT = 1025
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

API

MailTrap offers RESTful API you can use to fetch list of messages or particular message, ie. for testing purposes. You can use endpoints like:

• GET /messages/ - fetch list of emails
• DELETE /messages/ - delete all emails
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>.json - fetch email metadata
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>.plain - fetch plain part of email
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>.html - fetch HTML part of email
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>.source - fetch source of email
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>.eml - download whole email as an EML file
• GET /messages/<int:message_id>/parts/<cid> - download particular attachment
• DELETE /messages/<int:message_id> - delete single email

Python version

MailTrap is tested against Python 3.6+. Older Python versions may work, or may not.

If you want to run this software on Python 2.6+, just use MailDump

Installation

MailTrap should work on any POSIX platform where Python is available, it means Linux, MacOS/OSX etc.

Simplest way is to use Python's built-in package system:

pip3 install mailtrap

Voila!

Authors

• Marcin Sztolcman ([e-mail])
• Adrian Mönnich (author of MailDump, base of MailTrap)

Contact

If you like or dislike this software, please do not hesitate to tell me about this me via email ([e-mail]).

If you find bug or have an idea to enhance this tool, please use GitHub's issues.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

• Copyright (c) 2018 Marcin Sztolcman
• Copyright (c) 2013 Adrian Mönnich (MailDump)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

ChangeLog

v0.1.3

• fixed layout issues (radoslawhryciow)

v0.1.2

• fixed encoding issues

v0.1.0

• better support for macOS/OSX
• links now opens in new tab/window (added 'target="blank"')
• show message if there is no assets generated and info hoto to generate them
• added debugs for SMTP when in debug mode
• added support for Pipenv
• HTML tab is default now when looking at particular message
• converted to support Python 3.6+, drop support for lower Python versions
• added SMTP auth support (look at pull request 28 )
• copy from MailDump v0.5.6