Imitate Email
Imitate Email provides a fake SMTP server for testing email sending in development environments without sending real emails. · Imitate Email · DevOps & CI
Overview
Imitate Email is a developer-focused fake SMTP server that captures and displays outgoing emails for safe testing, debugging, and previewing during application development.
Good fit
Use when you need to safely test email sending from your app without delivering real emails to users.
- development environments
- QA teams
- CI pipelines
Not a fit
Avoid for production email delivery or when testing with actual user inboxes is required.
- sending real emails
- production use
- large-scale team collaboration
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign up for a free Imitate Email account.
- Create a new inbox from the dashboard.
- Configure your app's SMTP settings to use the provided server and credentials.
- Send a test email from your application.
- View and debug received emails in the Imitate Email dashboard.
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