Node.js as SMTP server emulator

[Dave Westerman]

In testing a module that sends emails, I was wondering if there was some way that I could create a dummy SMTP server with Node.js. I would want it to receive the email requests, and then instead of actually sending emails, it would just write some info from the emails to a file, which I could then read to make sure the emails were created correctly.

Can node.js handle smtp? Or can it only process http traffic?

[Aria Stewart]

> On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Dave Westerman <david.l....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In testing a module that sends emails, I was wondering if there was some way that I could create a dummy SMTP server with Node.js. I would want it to receive the email requests, and then instead of actually sending emails, it would just write some info from the emails to a file, which I could then read to make sure the emails were created correctly.
>
> Can node.js handle smtp? Or can it only process http traffic?

Absolutely. The registry has several modules for that exactly, plus haraka which is a whole SMTP server you can use in production.

Aria

[Adrian Lynch]

This looks like the ticket: https://github.com/andris9/smtp-server

On 30 April 2015 at 15:41, Dave Westerman <david.l....@gmail.com> wrote:

In testing a module that sends emails, I was wondering if there was some way that I could create a dummy SMTP server with Node.js. I would want it to receive the email requests, and then instead of actually sending emails, it would just write some info from the emails to a file, which I could then read to make sure the emails were created correctly.

Can node.js handle smtp? Or can it only process http traffic?

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[Matt]

Andris' smtp-server is great though requires a little coding.

With Haraka running the test_queue plugin, it just writes every mail to /tmp/mail.eml which might be exactly all you need.

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