Big part of development of webapps is to be able to effectively send and receive email from these apps. Using and external SMTP server is slow: you have to wait for the email to be send and then receive it through a real email client. Having a local SMTP server on the dev machine is a much better solution. I use MailCatcher. It’s open source, simple and today I fixed the only thing that was bothering me on it:

Contributed better plain text rendering to MailCatcher, my favorite dev SMTP server: https://t.co/YnCBll4D8L

— Robert Starsi (@klevo) February 17, 2015