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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by itake on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:45PM (#15413138)
We use mailcatcher[0] on our sandbox server so that product and QA can test email features in a live environment. Mailcatcher was a drop in replacement with our existing codebase. No need to add in additional business logic specific for testing or have to write our own interface to expose the "sent" emails.

[0] https://mailcatcher.me/

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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by brightball on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:35PM (#15414060)
Yep. Mailhog is another good one.

For staging environments I like Mailtrap.io because it's a cleaner interface for non-devs.

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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by itake on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:16AM (#15414984)
You get what you pay for :). mailcatcher is OSS and self hosted. Mailhog definitely looks prettier.
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by justboxing on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:19PM (#15413301)
[RETRACTED].

My bad.

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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by thegeomaster on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:14PM (#15413552)
It appears to me that mailcatcher linked by the parent is free and open source.
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by andris9 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:56PM (#15413907)
Ethereal.email is also open source so it can be installed locally https://github.com/nodemailer/ethereal-www
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Re:Ethereal Email – A fake SMTP service by itake on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:25AM (#15415464)
True, but ethereal.email requires mongodb and redis. whereas mailcatcher just uses sqlite. no need to install extra apps.
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