Python – Email Server

If you’re developing an email feature, you can use python smtp debugging mail server for local testing purpose. It can save you time.

Mail Server

Run the following command

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:8025

Set Environment Variable

export MAIL_SERVER=localhost
export MAIL_PORT=8025

Output

Output will be capture and can be view in terminal

---------- MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----------
b'From: no-reply@localhost'
b'To: codeomitted.noreply@gmail.com'
b'Subject: My System Failure'
b'Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:03:57 +0800'
b'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"'
b'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit'
b'MIME-Version: 1.0'
b'X-Peer: ::1'
b''
....
....
------------ END MESSAGE ------------