Inbucket is an email testing service; it will accept messages for any email address and make them available via web, REST and POP3. Once compiled, Inbucket does not have an external dependencies (HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and storage are all built in).

Read more at the Inbucket website

Inbucket is currently production quality: it is being used for real work.

Please check the issues list for more details.

You will need a functioning Go installation for this to work.

Grab the Inbucket source code and compile the daemon:

go get -v github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket

Edit etc/inbucket.conf and tailor to your environment. It should work on most Unix and OS X machines as is. Launch the daemon:

$GOPATH/bin/inbucket $GOPATH/src/github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket/etc/inbucket.conf

By default the SMTP server will be listening on localhost port 2500 and the web interface will be available at localhost:9000.

The Inbucket website has a more complete guide to installing from source

Inbucket is written in Google Go.

Inbucket is open source software released under the MIT License. The latest version can be found at https://github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket