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I prefer self-hosting MailHog:

https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog

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From the Mailpit README:

> Mailpit was originally inspired by MailHog which is no longer maintained and hasn't seen active development or security updates for a few years now.

Curious as to why it would need updates.

Security updates sure, but what really needs to update on an STMP (+ TLS?) solution?

Third-party libraries? TLS has definitely had its fair share of implementation and protocol vulnerabilities.

Although in mailhog's case it looks like STARTTLS was never implemented. Hence the forks.

It's a web application too, not just a SMTP server. The MailHog web app is a little rough around the edges (it's an early AngularJS app) and had some bugs involving HTML mail content, so I can see the need for an updated version.

A few others (last I looked, mailhog was the best option IMHO):

- https://github.com/maildev/maildev

- https://github.com/Nilhcem/FakeSMTP

- https://gitlab.com/markbeeson/maildrop

- https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher

I do the same with mailcatcher but by self-host I mean I would throw it in the projects docker compose file for local development and spin it up specifically for that project and take it down when not needed.

there's a few of them out there, I use Papercut https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP

I use papercut too.

I use https://toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/

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