Feature Request: Save to directory

[pedromorgan]

Possibility to save messages to a directory..

eg
-storage directory -directory /home/tests/mail/

Rationale, I want to go an investigate sent messages later, and having the messages in files would help

[ian-kent]

Would this be better handled using something like MongoDB?

Implementing a file based storage backend would be problematic (search, paging, etc) - though not impossible.

Would you need it as a full storage backend, or just an additional option to also spool messages to disk?

[nathankurtyka]

+1 on not requiring MongoDB. I totally see the value if it's already part of someone's stack, but I think it might be more common to write emails to disk.

It would be awesome if MailHog could persist messages to directories of .eml files, instead of memory/Mongo

[pedromorgan]

Actually what I want..

Is for mailhog to sump these into a directory..

Mainly cos it would be interesting to create a mailhog reader..
And embed a parser and mailserver..
for fun...

[ian-kent]

This is partially implemented in v0.2.0 - everything except search should work.

You can pass in -storage=maildir to output data to file, and use -maildir-path=/path/to/maildir to control the output directory.

It currently writes files in a very MailHog specific format - I'll eventually make this fully compatible with Maildir so its contents can be read by a mail server like Courier-IMAP

[teranshil]

Really practical feature!
Have stumbled across an issue.
I have downloaded Mailhog through homebrew. Have tried to set storage variable in varieties of ways. Like ./Mailhog -storage "maildir", ... -storage='maildir', ... -storage 'maildir'..

But nothing worked out. When I tested it by running ./Mailhog it says 'Using in-memory storage'.
The same thing happens with -maildir.

[delgurth]

@teranshil

Really practical feature!
Have stumbled across an issue.
I have downloaded Mailhog through homebrew. Have tried to set storage variable in varieties of ways. Like ./Mailhog -storage "maildir", ... -storage='maildir', ... -storage 'maildir'..

But nothing worked out. When I tested it by running ./Mailhog it says 'Using in-memory storage'.
The same thing happens with -maildir.

You missed the other flag: -maildir-path

MailHog -storage=maildir -maildir-path=/tmp/maildir
2020/01/28 15:25:56 Using maildir message storage
2020/01/28 15:25:56 Maildir path is /tmp/maildir
2020/01/28 15:25:56 [SMTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:1025
[HTTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:8025
2020/01/28 15:25:56 Serving under http://0.0.0.0:8025/
Creating API v1 with WebPath:
Creating API v2 with WebPath: