Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Germany
EU

Sites and apps similar to Imitate Email include Mailpit, which is free and open source. Other options are MailHog, Mailtrap, MailMug.net and FakeSMTP. You can choose from more than 10 Mail Servers like Imitate Email for Windows, Linux, Mac and self-hosting.


Mailtrap is an Email Delivery Platform for businesses and individuals to Test, Send, and Control their email infrastructure performance.



Capture SMTP traffic from staging and dev environments. Easily validate email content text or HTML/CSS. Utilize an Email Sandbox to thoroughly examine and troubleshoot emails within staging, development, and quality assurance (QA) environments prior to sending them to recipients...

FakeSMTP is a Free Fake SMTP Server with GUI for testing emails in applications easily. It is written in Java.



Papercut is a simplified SMTP server designed to only receive messages (not to send them on) with a GUI on top of it allowing you to see the messages it receives.




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.



Email Testing for QA & Development Teams. Catch every email your product sends, analyze it's contents, follow links and test deliverability all via the Mailosaur API.

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.


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.


testmail.app is an email testing platform for developers and QA teams. Create unlimited test email addresses on the fly using namespaces and tags, with no inbox setup required. Tags make it easy to isolate emails between users and parallel test runs.



