How to test for sending emails in python?

Question

I'm writing a set of black box tests for my application. I'm using smtplib for sending the emails, and I want to test whether emails are being sent/received properly.

Any ideas on how to do that in python?

Answer 1

Use one of the following to test that your emails are sent.

• FakeSMTP
• smtp4dev
• Fake smtp in python

Answer 2

you can use mailhog ,

you can run it locally using the docker image