Mailit, A Tiny REST API to Send Emails

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19 points·fidbit··6 comments

Looks great!

Also, I'd like to share my favorite email-related development tool, MailCatcher [0]

Running these kinds tools as part of a docker-compose setup locally makes a huge difference, especially for end-to-end testing.

[0] https://mailcatcher.me/

I used to use MailCatcher - but I've switched to MailHog[0]

Similar to MailCatcher, but it is built with Go so you dont need to compile etc - it just runs. I find it easier to install.

[0] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog

MailHog also looks great --

One thing that I use MailCatcher for is its REST API. I can easily check for new messages from tests (eg: Cucumber).

I don't see anything about that for MailHog on its github page.

Discussion from three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14898350

Projects/products that get many upvotes here once might deserve to stay in public sight longer than a couple of hours, even if just because they are more likely to be interesting/helpful to people :) e.g. yesterday's submission about a job site for former criminals slipped to the 2nd page just in 24 hours

it looks like just a simple wraper around nodemailer, without any advanced featuers, like you cannot send attachments, and so on.

i my tiny sideproject, sending emails with nodemailer is like 8 lines of code.

and for anything more complicated this is not really enough.

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