NAME¶

mailcatcher - catches mail and serves it through a dream

SYNOPSIS¶

mailcatcher [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that's arrived so far.

OPTIONS¶

-b, --browse

Open web browser

-f, --foreground

Run in the foreground

-h, --help

Display help information

--http-ip IP

Set the ip address of the http server

--http-path PATH

Add a prefix to all HTTP paths

--http-port PORT

Set the port address of the http server

--ip IP

Set the ip address of both servers

--messages-limit COUNT

Only keep up to COUNT most recent messages

--no-quit

Don't allow quitting the process

--smtp-ip IP

Set the ip address of the smtp server

--smtp-port PORT

Set the port of the smtp server

-v, --verbose

Be more verbose

--version

Display the current version

FILES¶

/etc/default/mailcatcher

mailcatcher service configuration file for Debian

NOTES¶

On Debian systems, when mailcatcher is run as a service via init/systemd most of these options can be configured in the /etc/default/mailcatcher configuration file.

SEE ALSO¶

catchmail(1)