xavierpriour / catchmail-node

a sendmail command line replacement for mail testing, in Javascript + Node

catchmail-node

A drop-in sendmail command line replacement built in Javascript with Node for testing.

It will forward all your mails to a testing SMTP mail catcher (we recommend MailDev).

Use it to test applications that call sendmail, like PHP mail() function:

1. install a test local SMTP mailcatcher like MailDev or MailCatcher
2. replace sendmail bin with catchmail (in PHP, add directive: sendmail_path = /usr/bin/env ./catchmail)
3. run mail server ($> maildev)
4. test your app
5. now all the mails you send appear nicely on http://localhost:1080/

Note that this code is a partial, non-optimized program to ease testing. It is not fit for production, use full blown sendmail or its successors.

Inspired 100% by catchmail in MailCatcher.

Install & Run

$ npm install -g catchmail
$ catchmail 

Build, test, contribute

You need to have git and node (v 0.12 or later) installed

git clone https://github.com/xavierpriour/catchmail-node.git
cd catchmail-node
npm install
grunt test

Please add tests with any contribution. Thanks and enjoy!

catchmail-node's Issues

Can't send emails to Docker MailDev

When sending to MailDev running in Docker, I get:
Error: Greeting never received
It works fine sending to MailHog.

I've used nc to talk to MailDev, and MailDev seems to be working fine, MailDev immediately replies:
220 8f0608ac52c8 ESMTP
However, having attempted to debug smtp-connection, it seems no data is received by catchmail when talking to MailDev.