VaultSandbox
Production-Like Email Testing Without Mocks
What it does
Keep your provider and your config. Just swap the recipient to validate real TLS, DNS, and SPF/DKIM entirely inside your VPC. Works with Postmark, SendGrid, SES, and more.
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- VTVaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integrationJan 2026 · vaultsandbox.com · ▲58
I've spent the last few months working on something I wish I'd had years ago. I kept running into the same issue: CI green, production mail broken. TLS handshake failures, DKIM alignment mismatches, SPF soft-fails ... the stuff that only surfaces when real mail servers are involved. Most test tools (Mailpit, MailHog) are catch-alls. They confirm "an email was sent" but don't validate the protocol. They also aren't designed for network-exposed environments: no auth, unprotected Web UI, easy to enumerate messages. VaultSandbox is my attempt at fixing that. It's a self-hosted SMTP gateway…
- AFA fake SMTP server for software integration testing2024 · fakemail.stream · ▲127
This is a side project of mine. Use this as your SMTP server in a test environment to guarantee that your users don't receive test emails. Looking for feedback, especially on the security side.




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