Intended Usage

Inbucket can be used in many different scenarios. It was designed to be used during software development and testing, and is not intended for storing mail of any significance.

Local Development

graph TD;
    subgraph Workstation
    app1["App 1"]-->Inbucket
    app2["App 2"]-->Inbucket
    end

Inbucket can be run without installing, after extracting the release for your platform, start in a terminal inside the directory containing the extracted files and run ./inbucket or inbucket.exe. This will launch an server listening for SMTP messages on port 2500, and the web interface will be served on port 9000.

Docker Compose

Companion Mail Server