Mailprobe

Email testing library as fake inbox, useful for E2E and unittests

Mailprobe runs a fake SMTP server to listen to the emails sent. It also runs a tiny webserver to display emails received. For automation tests and unittests where the test cases need to check if certain email is received, or to fetch email sent to a specific person can be checked via APIs.

Installation

Mailprobe is an npm package, you can use npm to install.

$ npm install -g mailprobe

Running

Mailprobe runs SMTP server at standard port 25. And runs the http server for serving webpages at 3000. This can be changed while running the mailprobe.

$ PORT=8000 mailprobe

Now launchhttp://localhost:8000/inbox to see inbox.

Requirements for Development

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package, Yarn, installed in your environement.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Just go on official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

  $ sudo apt install nodejs
  $ sudo apt install npm

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v10.16.3

$ npm --version
6.9.0

If you need to update npm, you can make it using npm! Cool right? After running the following command, just open again the command line and be happy.

$ npm install npm -g

Yarn installation

After installing node, this project will need yarn too, so just run the following command.

  $ npm install -g yarn

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/vkolgi/mailprobe
$ cd mailprobe
$ yarn install

Running the project

$ npm start