mailsave

========= Mail Save

Save emails to a file. It can be used as a replacement for sendmail or a SMTP server.

You can install it with pip install mailsave or pip install --user mailsave

You can also use the single file version <https://framagit.org/Jenselme/mailsave/tree/master/dist/mailsave.py>__. Since mailsave only needs the standard library, you don't have anything to install.

It is different from other tools like maildump <https://pypi.org/project/maildump/>__ because:

• It is very minimalist: no Web or GUI interface, just files.
• It can be used instead of sendmail.

To use in place of sendmail, just put the path to the mailsave executable instead of the sendmail one. For instance, in a php.ini file:

::

sendmail_path = /home/jenselme/.virtualenvs/test/bin/mailsave --dir mails

To use as an SMTP server, launch it like this:

::

mailsave --server --dir mails

Then you can send it emails with the SMTP protocol:

::

swaks --to [e-mail] --server localhost --port 2525 --add-header "X-Custom-Header: Swaks-Tested"

To view the full help, use:

::

mailsave --help

Written for Python 3.5+.

======= History

0.8.1 (2017-09-05)

• Decode HTML payload when extracting HTML. If we don't, the HTML message is not valid HTML and cannot be displayed by a web browser.

0.8.0 (2017-09-01)

• Move project to gitlab
• Add support for emails with payload encoded in base64
• Improve handling of email with special characters sent from stdin
• Normalize file names before save
• Can use subject in file name
• Can choose not to save the file
• Can extract HTML from the mail
• Add support for -t option. This is useful if the dots of the mail are escaped before being sent to the script, ie a dot (.) at the start of a line is replaced by two dots (..).

0.5.0 (2017-07-26)

• Add an option to print the version
• Don't print traceback when quitting the "readline" version with CTRL-C
• Can use a template for the file

0.4.0 (2017-07-10)

• Can choose the name of the file in which to save.

0.3.0 (2017-07-06)

• Don't fail if script receive undefined option. It is important to act as a replacement for sendmail. Some program will try to call it with custom options.
• Include LICENSE and HISTORY.rst in release made to pypi.
• Add a single file version so users don't have to install mailsave with pip.

0.2.0 (2017-07-05)

• Can read mail from SMTP.

0.1.0 (2017-07-05)

• Can act as a replacement of sendmail.