Re:Show HN: Fake SMTP server as a service
by brightball on Monday April 03, 2017 @10:33AM
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I'm a fan of MailHog. It's simple for the whole team to setup and the optional chaos monkey button is a great way to make sure your email system can tolerate periodic failures properly.
It works locally and is really simple to setup for shared staging/prerelease environments, handles high volumes really well and the websocket auto-update system is great.
Personally, I'm a fan of using Mailhog for local and Mailtrap.io for shared environments because in my experience, non-technical testers have a better experience with Mailtrap and it's simple tie ins to review the look of emails on different platforms/clients.
Basically, Mailhog for local sending, does it send, can it handle failure, etc and Mailtrap.io for "does it look right?".
It works locally and is really simple to setup for shared staging/prerelease environments, handles high volumes really well and the websocket auto-update system is great.
Personally, I'm a fan of using Mailhog for local and Mailtrap.io for shared environments because in my experience, non-technical testers have a better experience with Mailtrap and it's simple tie ins to review the look of emails on different platforms/clients.
Basically, Mailhog for local sending, does it send, can it handle failure, etc and Mailtrap.io for "does it look right?".