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Our review
What we like
Acts as a mail server (SMTP or API) for testing emails from your code. Static binary so can easily be run in CI/CD. API allows querying of received emails so you can check they were correctly “sent”. Can persist mail to a SQLite database. Has a web UI to inspect mail e.g. for local development.
What we don't like
Designed for integration testing rather than as a library for unit testing or mocking - which is probably what you want for email tests, but means you need to configure it as a service. Includes Docker images to support this.
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