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SMTP Server with API for email testing inspired by mailtrap and maildump

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SMTP Server with API for email testing inspired by mailtrap and maildump

Can store messages in MongoDB or any SQLAlchemy supported DB (e.g., sqlite)

Usage:

$ virtualenv venv  # or mkvirutalenv lathermail
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install lathermail
$ lathermail --help

usage: lathermail [-h] [--db-uri DB_URI] [--api-host API_HOST]
                  [--api-port API_PORT] [--smtp-host SMTP_HOST]
                  [--smtp-port SMTP_PORT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --db-uri DB_URI       DB URI, e.g. mongodb://localhost/lathermail,
                        sqlite:////tmp/my.db (default:
                        sqlite:///~/.lathermail.db)
  --api-host API_HOST   API Host (default: 127.0.0.1)
  --api-port API_PORT   API port (default: 5000)
  --smtp-host SMTP_HOST
                        SMTP host (default: 127.0.0.1)
  --smtp-port SMTP_PORT
                        SMTP port (default: 2525)

It will start SMTP server and API server in single process.

Inboxes are identified by SMTP user/password pairs. lathermail intended to be used in single project environment.

To send email, just use SMTP client with auth support.

API

To request API, you must provide headers:

  • X-Mail-Password - same as SMTP password

  • X-Mail-Inbox - same as SMTP user. Optional, work with all inboxes if not specified

GET /api/0/inboxes/

Returns list of inboxes for passed X-Mail-Password:

{
    "inbox_list": [
        "first",
        "second",
        "third"
    ],
    "inbox_count": 3
}

GET /api/0/messages/<message_id>

Returns single message. Example:

{
    "message_info": {
        "message_raw": "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"===============3928630509694630745==...",
        "password": "password",
        "sender": {
            "name": "Me",
            "address": "asdf@exmapl.com"
        },
        "recipients": [
            {
                "name": "Rcpt1",
                "address": "rcpt1@example.com"
            },
            {
                "name": "Rcpt2",
                "address": "rcpt2@example.com"
            },
            {
                "name": "",
                "address": "rcpt3@example.com"
            }
        ],
        "recipients_raw": "=?utf-8?q?Rcpt1?= <rcpt1@example.com>,\n =?utf-8?q?Rcpt2?= <rcpt2@example.com>, rcpt3@example.com",
        "created_at": "2014-06-24T15:28:35.045000+00:00",
        "sender_raw": "Me <asdf@exmapl.com>",
        "parts": [
            {
                "index": 0,
                "body": "you you \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442 2",
                "is_attachment": false,
                "charset": "utf-8",
                "filename": null,
                "type": "text/plain",
                "size": 16
            },
            {
                "index": 1,
                "body": null,
                "is_attachment": true,
                "charset": null,
                "filename": "t\u0430\u0441\u0434est.txt",
                "type": "application/octet-stream",
                "size": 12
            }
        ],
        "inbox": "inbox",
        "_id": "53a960e3312f9156b7c92c5b",
        "subject": "Test subject \u0445\u044d\u043b\u043b\u043e\u0443 2",
        "read": false
    }
}

Attachments in message have body = null. To download file, use following method.

GET /api/0/messages/<message_id>/attachments/<attachment_index>

Returns file from message. Works in browsers.

GET /api/0/messages/

Returns messages according to optional filters:

  • sender.name - Name of sender

  • sender.address - Email of sender

  • recipients.name - Name of any of recipients

  • recipients.address - Email of any of recipients

  • subject - Message subject

  • subject_contains - Any part of message subject

  • created_at_lt - Filter messages created before this ISO formatted datetime

  • created_at_gt - Filter messages created after this ISO formatted datetime

  • read - Return only read emails when True or unread when False. All emails returned by default

Example:

{
    "message_count": 3,
    "message_list": [
        {"_id": ..., "parts": [...], ...},  // same as single message
        {...},
        {...}
    ]
}

DELETE /api/0/messages/<message_id>

Deletes single message

DELETE /api/0/messages/

Deletes all messages in inbox. Also, you can filter deletable messages like in GET /api/0/

Configuration

Copy lathermail.conf.example, modify it, export environment variable before starting:

$ export LATHERMAIL_SETTINGS=/path/to/lathermail.conf
$ lathermail

To run tests:

$ python -m tests

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