lathermail

SMTP Server with API for email testing inspired by mailtrap and maildump

Can store messages in MongoDB or any SQLAlchemy supported DB (e.g., sqlite). Supports Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, pypy.

Contains simple UI interface (AngularJS) to navigate and manage received messages.

Available API clients:

• Python API client lathermail_client (PyPI).

Usage:

$ virtualenv venv  # or mkvirutalenv lathermail
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install lathermail
$ lathermail --help

usage: lathermail [-h] [--db-uri DB_URI] [--api-host API_HOST]
                  [--api-port API_PORT] [--smtp-host SMTP_HOST]
                  [--smtp-port SMTP_PORT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --db-uri DB_URI       DB URI, e.g. mongodb://localhost/lathermail,
                        sqlite:////tmp/my.db (default:
                        sqlite:///~/.lathermail.db)
  --api-host API_HOST   API Host (default: 127.0.0.1)
  --api-port API_PORT   API port (default: 5000)
  --smtp-host SMTP_HOST
                        SMTP host (default: 127.0.0.1)
  --smtp-port SMTP_PORT
                        SMTP port (default: 2525)

It will start SMTP server and API server in single process. Also UI interface is available at API port (http://127.0.0.1:5000 by default)

Inboxes are identified by SMTP user/password pairs. lathermail intended to be used in single project environment.

To send email, just use SMTP client with auth support.

API

To request API, you must provide headers:

• X-Mail-Password - same as SMTP password
• X-Mail-Inbox - same as SMTP user. Optional, work with all inboxes if not specified

GET /api/0/inboxes/

Returns list of inboxes for passed X-Mail-Password:

{
    "inbox_list": [
        "first",
        "second",
        "third"
    ],
    "inbox_count": 3
}

GET /api/0/messages/<message_id>

Returns single message. Example:

{
    "message_info": {
        "message_raw": "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"===============3928630509694630745==...",
        "password": "password",
        "sender": {
            "name": "Me",
            "address": "asdf@exmapl.com"
        },
        "recipients": [
            {
                "name": "Rcpt1",
                "address": "rcpt1@example.com"
            },
            {
                "name": "Rcpt2",
                "address": "rcpt2@example.com"
            },
            {
                "name": "",
                "address": "rcpt3@example.com"
            }
        ],
        "recipients_raw": "=?utf-8?q?Rcpt1?= <rcpt1@example.com>,\n =?utf-8?q?Rcpt2?= <rcpt2@example.com>, rcpt3@example.com",
        "created_at": "2014-06-24T15:28:35.045000+00:00",
        "sender_raw": "Me <asdf@exmapl.com>",
        "parts": [
            {
                "index": 0,
                "body": "you you \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442 2",
                "is_attachment": false,
                "charset": "utf-8",
                "filename": null,
                "type": "text/plain",
                "size": 16
            },
            {
                "index": 1,
                "body": null,
                "is_attachment": true,
                "charset": null,
                "filename": "t\u0430\u0441\u0434est.txt",
                "type": "application/octet-stream",
                "size": 12
            }
        ],
        "inbox": "inbox",
        "_id": "53a960e3312f9156b7c92c5b",
        "subject": "Test subject \u0445\u044d\u043b\u043b\u043e\u0443 2",
        "read": false
    }
}

Attachments in message have body = null. To download file, use following method.

GET /api/0/messages/<message_id>/attachments/<attachment_index>

Returns file from message. Works in browsers.

GET /api/0/messages/

Returns messages according to optional filters:

• sender.name - Name of sender
• sender.address - Email of sender
• recipients.name - Name of any of recipients
• recipients.address - Email of any of recipients
• subject - Message subject
• Add _contains suffix to any field above to search substring match, e.g.: subject_contains, recipients.address_contains
• created_at_lt - Filter messages created before this ISO formatted datetime
• created_at_gt - Filter messages created after this ISO formatted datetime
• read - Return only read emails when True or unread when False. All emails returned by default

Example:

{
    "message_count": 3,
    "message_list": [
        {"_id": ..., "parts": [...], ...},  // same as single message
        {...},
        {...}
    ]
}

DELETE /api/0/messages/<message_id>

Deletes single message

DELETE /api/0/messages/

Deletes all messages in inbox. Also, you can filter deletable messages like in GET /api/0/

Configuration

Copy lathermail.conf.example, modify it, export environment variable before starting:

$ export LATHERMAIL_SETTINGS=/path/to/lathermail.conf
$ lathermail

To run tests:

$ python -m tests