Mailsac v2

The receive-only mail server powering Mailsac.com.

You can throw it onto a server pretty easily and use it for testing incoming email.

Mailsac >=2.0.0 is a complete rewrite and not compatible with <2.0.0.

Setup

Instructions for Ubuntu 14.04

On a fresh server, download the script ./install/ubuntu-1404.sh and run it:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruffrey/mailsac/master/install/ubuntu-1404.sh
sudo sh ubuntu-1404.sh

Or from a local version of the repository:

ssh root@MYHOSTNAME 'bash -s' < install/ubuntu-1404.sh

Instructions for everything else

Remove or disable any services that are bound to ports 25 and 587. These are used by SMTP and required by the Mailsac ./smtp-server.js.

Redeploy

There is a helper script ./deploy which can be used to deploy the current directory to a remote server where Mailsac has been installed.

./deploy [email protected] # assumes your ssh key is on host

Deps

• Node.js >= 0.12.0
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Nothing blocking the mail ports (25 and 587)

Running

node app

There are DEBUG= environment variables which will help with troubleshooting. See ./package.json - "scripts".

Advanced configuration

Change ./config/default.json or add config files matching NODE_ENV environment variable. See more instructions for node-config: https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config/wiki

Not for Node.js cloud hosts

Mailsac runs on VPS or bare servers.

It will not work on Node.js cloud services (like AppFog, Heroku) because they won't give you access to SMTP ports.

You could use a service like Docker to manage and deploy Node.js apps on a VPS. Or just deploy to a normal VPS using the ./deploy script, git, or something else.

Plugins

Pluggable features can be added to Mailsac.

There are hooks into the UI application and SMTP processes.

An example plugin is found in the ./plugins/ folder. See it for details.

A plugin must either be:

• a file with .plugin.js as the extension

You can extend the base ./views/layout.jade template by having the following jade files in your plugin folder.

• ./plugins/myexample.plugin/includes/head.jade
• ./plugins/myexample.plugin/includes/footer.jade

Development

Follow the code quality guidelines by running:

npm run lint

Pull requests against master are welcome.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 Jeff H. Parrish

The code written for the Mailsac project is covered by the LICENSE file at the root of this project. All other code is copyright and licensed under its respective licensors.