PillarBox

PillarBox is a mock SMTP server that makes email testing easy. Built for developers, designers and testers. It will capture all emails sent by your development or testing systems, and displays them in an easy to user UI with useful testing tools.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Core, which is available for Windows, Linux and macOS
• NodeJS, for compiling Angular app

Installing

Open a shell or terminal window.

Checkout a copy of this repository.

git clone https://github.com/jesshannon/PillarBox

Navigate into /src/PillarBox.Web

cd PillarBox/src/PillarBox.Web

Run with dotnet, if you see socket exception errors it may be necessary to run from an Administrator prompt or with sudo dotnet run

dotnet run

On first run it might take a few minutes to restore packages and modules.

Once complete, go to http://localhost:5000/ in your browser.

Screenshots

Development

If extending the Web API, then install TypeScriptDefinitionGenerator to keep JS classes in sync with server side code.

Authors

• Jess Shannon - Initial work - jesshannon

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• https://github.com/cosullivan/SmtpServer