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.