What is MailCatcher?
It runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. It catches all mail and stores it for display. It shows HTML, Plain Text and Source version of messages, as applicable.
MailCatcher is a tool in the Email Testing category of a tech stack.
MailCatcher is an open source tool with 6.2K GitHub stars and 571 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MailCatcher's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MailCatcher?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use MailCatcher in their tech stacks, including StackShare, PC Pulse, and Vow Made.
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MailCatcher.
MailCatcher's Features
- Runs as a daemon in the background, optionally in foreground.Sendmail-analogue command
- catchmail, makes using mailcatcher from PHP a lot easier
- Keyboard navigation between messages
MailCatcher Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MailCatcher?
MailHog
It is an email testing tool for developers. You can configure your application to use MailHog for SMTP delivery. You can view messages in the web UI, or retrieve them with the JSON API.
Mailtrap
We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
