I've been working on a tool called MailFrom.dev – a sandbox SMTP server designed for staging and development environments. If you’ve ever had to deal with testing email flows like password resets or onboarding confirmations, you know how messy it can get when you don’t want to send real emails.
MailFrom.dev lets you send emails to a fake SMTP server, where you can inspect everything in a web UI — no emails actually go out to the end users and you can also share everything with you team.
I was frustrated with how expensive or overly complex other tools in this space are.. I wanted something affordable and dead simple to use. Just check the pricing — you'll see what I mean.
It’s fully open to the public now, and I’d love any feedback, thoughts, or feature suggestions.
Tech stack:
* Backend: Laravel (Horizon, Reverb, Cashier)
* Frontend: Vue 3 + shadcn + reka
* Infra: k3s on Hetzner, S3 & SES on AWS
It’s live now and I’d love your feedback, feature ideas, or general thoughts. If you’ve had similar needs or hacked together a solution before, I’d love to hear how you handled it.
