Ethereal Email Alternatives

Ethereal Email is described as 'Ethereal is a fake SMTP service, mostly aimed at Nodemailer users (but not limited to). It's a completely free anti-transactional email service where messages never get delivered' and is a Mail Server in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Ethereal Email, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Ethereal Email alternative is Mailpit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Ethereal Email are MailHog, MailMug.net, Mailtrap and Papercut.

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  1. Origami SMTP icon
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    Origami SMTP was created with the idea to have a fake email server for testing purposes that supported TLS. This is because the code the developer was working on at the time had several hard coded values enforcing TLS so most other solutions would not work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Sendria icon
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    Sendria (formerly MailTrap) is a SMTP server designed to run in your dev/test environment, that is designed to catch any email you or your application is sending, and display it in a web interface instead of sending to real world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • Sendria is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Ethereal Email.

    • Sendria is Free and Open SourceEthereal Email is Free and Proprietary
  3. testmail.app icon
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    QA tool for automating end-to-end email tests. Get unlimited private email addresses and inboxes for testing new user signups, transactional emails and drip campaigns, deliverability and spam scores, etc. Integrates with your CI/CD workflow. Includes spam testing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. LunaticSMTP icon
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    LunaticSMTP is a dummy SMTP server with desktop GUI for testing email sending applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • JavaFX
    • Java
     
  5. MailDev icon
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    MailDev is a simple way to test your project's generated emails during development with an easy to use web interface that runs on your machine built on top of Node.js.

    24 MailDev alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Zyntra icon
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    Zyntra is a disposable email platform for QA teams and test automation workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Mailocal icon
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    A local SMTP server with email display, used mostly for development of other apps. Think unlimited Mailtrap that runs on your own computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Imitate Email is a fake SMTP server for developers and testers. It includes an embeddable widget so that testers can quickly see sent emails alongside the app they're testing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Mailnest icon
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    Mailnest is an all in one email QA tool for development & testing teams in IT companies to test & improve email functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Mailsnag icon
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    Mailsnag lets you build resilient SMTP integrations while protecting you from spamming customers during testing on QA and Staging environments. It is like Chaos Monkey for SMTP integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    A fake SMTP server for software integration testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Sunnybox icon
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    Sunnybox is a fully featured hosted service for handling your email accounts. Fetch, send and analyze your emails through a single, robust API. Easy email processing for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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