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5 self-hosted Mailinator alternatives

Disposable email and inbox testing service that provides public and private temporary inboxes, APIs, and team features for QA and automation to receive and inspect messages without creating real accounts.

Alternatives to Mailinator

SimpleLogin is an open-source email alias service that lets you create aliases to protect your real inbox, forward mail, and reply or send from aliases using custom domains.

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7k stars649 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source anonymous email forwarding that creates and manages aliases, supports custom domains, encrypted forwarding, and self-hosting via Postfix and MariaDB.

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4.8k stars267 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

OpenTrashmail is a standalone disposable email (“trashmail”) service with its own SMTP server, offering a web UI plus JSON API, RSS feeds, and webhooks for received mail.

924 stars75 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

Self-hosted disposable email server for creating temporary addresses to reduce spam and protect privacy, with an optional TLS setup and a web UI.

713 stars55 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Inboxen provides unlimited unique email inboxes to protect your primary address from spam, sign-ups, and tracking while keeping your real inbox clean.

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What replacing Mailinator actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Email Servers (SMTP/IMAP).

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