https://github.com/bluerail/post_office
By Rene van Lieshout [email protected]
PostOffice is a mock SMTP/POP3 server to accept mails sent from your Rails application when it's running in development. The messages can be retrieved using a standard POP3 client, such as mail.app. Just connect to localhost with any username and password.
Note: Received messages are not sent to their final recipient and will remain available until deleted or when the process is quit.
sudo gem install post_office
sudo post_office [options]
-v, --verbose Output more information
-l, --logfile FILE Write log to FILE. Outputs to STDOUT (or /var/log/post_office.log when daemonized) by default.
-h, --help Display this screen
This starts the service and listens on port 25 and 110. Configure your POP3 client with any username and password.
It's possible to start PostOffice as a daemon using post_officed:
Usage: post_officed <command> <options> -- <application options>
* where <command> is one of:
start start an instance of the application
stop stop all instances of the application
restart stop all instances and restart them afterwards
reload send a SIGHUP to all instances of the application
run start the application and stay on top
zap set the application to a stopped state
status show status (PID) of application instances
* and where <options> may contain several of the following:
-t, --ontop Stay on top (does not daemonize)
-f, --force Force operation
-n, --no_wait Do not wait for processes to stop
Common options:
-h, --help Show this message
--version Show version
PostOffice daemon can be started on Mac OS X system startup.
sudo post_office [options]
--install-osx-startup-item Installs Post Office as OS X Startup Item
--remove-osx-startup-item Removes Post Office as OS X Startup Item
The Startup Item is stored in /Library/StartupItems/PostOffice
- Ability to use custom ports for SMTP and POP
- Growl notifications
- Store mail in tempfiles instead of in-memory array
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork and send a pull request through Github.