What's a good mail server for development use?

imap pop3 mail-server
Peter Boughton picture Peter Boughton · Apr 20, 2009 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I'm doing some development which will involve reacting to emails, and I'd like to use a local IMAP mail server for this.

I currently use Devnull SMTP server for testing of sending emails, but this just logs and discards messages, it doesn't do IMAP for checking incoming emails/mailboxes.

I don't need/want a full-blown server, just something lightweight I can easily start/stop as required.

Multi-platform is preferred, but feel free to provide answer for specific platforms also.

(A POP3-based server would also be acceptable for development use, since I'll be supporting both in my code anyway.)

Answer

Paul Alexander picture Paul Alexander · Apr 20, 2009

Take a look at hMailServer.

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