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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by LinuxBender on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:12PM (#15411273)
How is this better than using smtp-sink that comes with postfix?
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by andris9 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @02:27PM (#15411421)
Ethereal allows to generate new testing accounts via an API. Every account is a full featured IMAP/POP3 mail store with the condition that all emails expire after 7 days from the account.
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by LinuxBender on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:05PM (#15412585)
Fair enough. I only ask because email testing should be able to run in an isolated test network. Perhaps dovcot+postfix in a container may be too much work for some folks.
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by Xeoncross on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:11PM (#15412626)
It's a great idea, but two quick reasons:

- Most of us don't know about it

- You have to install postfix

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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by saurik on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:41PM (#15412783)
Many fewer of us know about Ethereal Email... just sayin'.
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