MailDrop is a free throwaway e-mail address. It's temporary. It's transient. It's disposable. It's meant for those times when you don't want to give out your real address. Just give someone any e-mail address in the maildrop.



The best open source alternative to Papercut is MailDrop. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Papercut and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Papercut are Mailpit, MailHog, FakeSMTP and smtp4dev.
MailDrop is a free throwaway e-mail address. It's temporary. It's transient. It's disposable. It's meant for those times when you don't want to give out your real address. Just give someone any e-mail address in the maildrop.




MailHog is an email testing tool inspired by MailCatcher, but easier to install.

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





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.


LunaticSMTP is a dummy SMTP server with desktop GUI for testing email sending applications.



