inbucket / fauxmailer

Generate random emails, sent via SMTP

fauxmailer

fauxmailer will generate random emails, and send them via SMTP.

The initial goal for this project is to populate a demo instance of Inbucket.

Usage

Usage of fauxmailer:
  -every duration
        sends a message every <duration> if non-zero
  -host string
        host:port of SMTP server (default "localhost:25")
  -signature string
        signature (default "Generated by https://github.com/inbucket/fauxmailer")
  -silent
        disable to/from address log
  -tofile string
        optional file containing newline separated To addresses
  -verbose
        enable verbose output

Examples

To send a single message to a random address via your local mail server:

fauxmailer -verbose

To send about four messages per second to your local Inbucket server:

fauxmailer -host localhost:2500 -every 250ms

To send a message every five minutes to a random address selected from the contents of addresses.txt:

fauxmailer -host exchange.mycorp:25 -tofile addresses.txt -every 5m

Sample Output

Example of fauxmailer output with -verbose flag:

2018/11/01 13:55:16 [e-mail] -> [e-mail]
2018/11/01 13:55:16 Sending:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary=enmime-389602d4-f07c-413e-a30c-2b48e73db32f
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:55:16 -0700
From: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: Engineer Proactive E-Business with Beer, Weissnat and Boyle
To: <[e-mail]>

--enmime-389602d4-f07c-413e-a30c-2b48e73db32f
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Aut sequi illo qui vacuus. Sint bellicus blanditiis. Laboriosam congregatio ab laborum ars.

Degero vigilo contra varietas qui occaecati debeo. Tempora animi appello ad est. Et ipsum desipio asper.

Centum similique consequatur eos. Vitae bestia qui enim. Aedificium labore nostrum solio.

Facilis ubi calculus dolorum. Et aer usus aut quod vulgo adnuo nesciunt. Thalassinus cumque voluptatem culpa.

Brain Considine <[e-mail]>, Direct Assurance Executive
Beer, Weissnat and Boyle, "Sharable incremental synergy"

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Generated by https://github.com/inbucket/fauxmailer

--enmime-389602d4-f07c-413e-a30c-2b48e73db32f
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<p>Aut sequi illo qui vacuus. Sint bellicus blanditiis. Laboriosam congregatio ab laborum ars.</p>
<p>Degero vigilo contra varietas qui occaecati debeo. Tempora animi appello ad est. Et ipsum desipio asper.</p>
<p>Centum similique consequatur eos. Vitae bestia qui enim. Aedificium labore nostrum solio.</p>
<p>Facilis ubi calculus dolorum. Et aer usus aut quod vulgo adnuo nesciunt. Thalassinus cumque voluptatem culpa.</p>
<p>Stewart Kilback &lt;<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a>&gt;, Senior Marketing Architect<br>
<b>Beer, Weissnat and Boyle</b>, <em>Team-oriented discrete initiative</em></p>
<p><small>Generated by https://github.com/inbucket/fauxmailer</small></p>

--enmime-389602d4-f07c-413e-a30c-2b48e73db32f--

Docker

Docker Hub automated build available at inbucket/fauxmailer

• inbucket/fauxmailer:stable tracks branch master
• inbucket/fauxmailer:latest tracks branch develop

Building from Source

You will need a functioning Go installation for this to work.

Grab the fauxmailer source code and compile the executable:

go get -v github.com/inbucket/fauxmailer

About

fauxmailer is written in Google Go

fauxmailer is open source software released under the MIT License. The latest version can be found at https://github.com/inbucket/fauxmailer