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Welcome to mini-mailinator!

This is a simple version of the Mailinator program. It is designed to work simultaneously as an SMTP server, and as a web application.

As an SMTP server, it accepts all emails sent to it (no matter the destination address) and stores
them in memory. As a web server, you can view any of the emails sent to a specified email address.

Differences between this and the real mailinator program:

• No requirement for a special domain (i.e. it will accept all emails, whether they are in the .mailinator.com domain or not).

• No flood control (the real mailinator program will block you if you try to send too many messages to it in a short amount of time).

• No spam control (the real mailinator does do some spam checking (not much)).

• No removal of attachments

This is designed so that developers can test the mail-sending parts of their applications without having to set up a proper SMTP server / fetchmail (or similar) / and real accounts.

It is not a replacement for the real Mailinator program.

• If you want a quick disposable email address, you want the real Mailinator system

• If you want an email server that is externally visible, you certainly don't want this - it should be used in-house only (preferably on an individual developers computer).

• If you don't want to set up a computer with the necessary software and configure it yourself, then you probably want to talk to the staff at Mailinator about what they can offer.

Want to use it? Take a look at: QuickStart

Want to look at some Screen Shots?

Project Admins:

• Andrew Monkhouse