My new job involves hacking on Bugzilla and part of that involves email. Bug email, system administration email, yadda yadda. I wanted a way to test that email without it ever leaving my development system. We had a mechanism in place where the emails would just get written to a plain file, but that doesn’t help with HTML email. I wanted to be able to see the email rendered all nice and tidy in Mail.app. A couple of jobs ago, one of my coworkers put something together out of Python and it worked great, but I couldn’t find an already-done example online anywhere. Other servers were GUI or Mac-only and therefore wouldn’t work on a headless Linux test server. Whatever solution I picked, I’d have to write some code.
Well, I found a Java SMTP test server and wrote a simple POP3 server into it. So now I’ve modified dumbster and made my modifications available to the world. Use it, improve it, do as you like. It’ll make my life easier, and I hope it makes yours a little better, too.
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