Author: Michael Mayer

With email capture, Quality Assurance teams testing email delivery can easily see the exact emails customers will receive.

The new Email Capture Service is an SMTP server that accepts all mail regardless of the To and From address. It is similar to Mailsac’s existing disposable mail, with some key differences. The capture service acts like a fake outbound relay, rather than a fake inbound relay.

Messages sent via capture.mailsac.com are available from the Mailsac Website or REST API. This allows Quality Assurance teams to validate that the message was sent and the contents of the message.

Web applications frequently send transactional emails to users. During development and User Acceptance Testing, sending email is disabled in the application – so emails are not accidentally sent to customers or fake test addresses. Sending lots of bounces from a development application is a great way to get your domain blacklisted, greylisted, or onto a spam list.

Send via capture.mailsac.com instead

Web applications can be configured to use the Email Capture Service as their SMTP server. Emails sent by the application can then be viewed by developers and testers.

Customers have been sending test emails to hosted custom domains at Mailsac for years. The email capture services simplifies the process of sending emails to Mailsac by allowing developers to relay through Mailsac without any additional email infrastructure.

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Most customers can get started sending through the Email Capture service instantly.
Wherever you input SMTP credentials in your application, change to the following:

• Server Name: capture.mailsac.com
• Port: 5587
• Use Secure Connection: Yes (TLS)
• User Authentication – Username: Mailsac account username *
• User Authentication – Password: any Mailsac API Key for the account

Any email sent to the capture server will be available at the TO address in Mailsac’s UI or API.

* a private address or custom domain address may be used if your email library does not support a separate FROM address for the username.

Further Reading

• Email Capture Service Documentation
• Mailsac API Documentation
• Mailsac API Keys

Customers have sent inquiries to support@mailsac.com requesting to have their accounts deleted. This functionality is now available from Manage Account Details, which is accessible from the Dashboard.

• Requesting account deletion expresses your intention to fully remove both your user account and any existing information relevant to your account.
• This action cannot be undone, and we will be unable to recover any data.

The Mailsac dashboard has a brand new look. Our commonly used services are easier discover. You may find out about features you never new existed.

Setting up disposable or test email for a domain has never been easier. With the Mailsac Zero-Setup-Subdomain, choose you subdomain name and start receiving emails within minutes.

We do our best to build simple, indispensable APIs and tools for Quality Assurance teams. End to end testing of emails sent by web applications is easy with Mailsac. API Keys are included with all Mailsac accounts, including our free tier with generous API call limits.

Increase your privacy by using the Mailsac’s free disposable email service. Send to virtually any @mailsac.com address and view the email without ever signing in. To see all messages in an inbox and to view images you will need to sign up for a free account. With the free account you can star messages you need to keep and make them hidden to other users. If you find yourself needing extra email addresses that nobody else can see. They are available as an addon.