barkinet/ad-hoc-email-server

An ad-hoc disposable temporary mail server. Create and use ad hoc disposable mailboxes for testing or any other purpose.

Ad Hoc Email Server (AHEM)

Ad Hoc Email Server is, well, an ad hoc mail server. AHEM server can be used for testing, were a large (or unknown) number of mailboxes is needed or to provide disposable emails for registering into services that might expose the email for spam; This project will provide both RESTful api and web application for consuming the service. A working example of AHEM is always available here.

Getting Started

Ahem mail server will accept any email sent to it (on the domains specified in the configuration), and create an ad hoc mailbox as needed. Then just browse to it's UI, enter the mailbox name and you'll see the emails contained in the mailbox. That's it. No authentication. No account creation.

Prerequisites

nodejs > v8.9 
angular cli installed globally (npm install -g @angular/cli)
mongodb

Installation

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/o4oren/ahem-server.git
cd ahem-server
npm install
# builds the project.
npm run build:ssr

# There are other, convenience options for build and run in development mode.
# For developmet:
npm run startDev

# for prod
# Will run the backend which will also serve the front end form the `dist` folder.
node ahem.js

Configuration

A configuration file names properties.json is located in the root of the project. Edit it to fit your use case. Parameters:

• serverBaseUri - the base address for your api server
• mongoConnectUrl - the mongodb connect url in the form of "mongodb://localhost:27017/ahem"
• appListenPort - the port the node app will bind to.
• smtpPort - the SMTP server's port. Note that by default it is set to 2525 - this is done for testing purposes, as on many systems only a system account can listen on port 25.
• emailDeleteInterval - The time in seconds between age checks for purging old files.
• emailDeleteAge - The age in seconds above which emails will be deleted
• allowedDomains - An array of allowed email domains. These domains will be allowed by the server as RCPT TO: entries. This also makes the server not act as an open relay. Format: ["my.domain.com", "my.second-domain.com"]
• customText - html string that will replace the default text in the landing page
• allowAutocomplete - if set to false, will prevent auto completing users in the ui

Docker

• Build docker: docker build -t o4oren/ahem .

• Run docker: docker run --name ahem -it -p 3000:3000 -p 25:25 -d o4oren/ahem

• Sign into docker: docker exec -it ahem sh

• start docker stackand swarm: docker swarm init && docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml ahemswarmc

• stop docker stack: docker stack rm getstartedlab

• for debugging - run docker locally: docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -v ~/data:/data/db mongo

Build and run with mongodb

• docker-compose build
• docker-compose up

palette

https://material.io/tools/color/#!/?view.left=0&view.right=0&primary.color=515f77&secondary.color=E3F2FD

API

The full api documentation is available here.

A brief list of RESTful resources:

HTTP Method	URI Path	Parameters	Descritpion
POST	/api/mailbox/autocomplete	{ "prefix":"value" }	Returns a partial list of mailboxes
GET	/api/properties		returns global system properties
POST	/api/auth/authenticate	{ }	Returns an access token
GET	/api/mailbox/{mailbox}/email		returns a list of the email objects in the mailbox
GET	/api/mailbox/{mailbox}/email/{emailId}		Gets the contents of a specific email
PATCH	/api/mailbox/{acount}/email/{emailId}	{"isRead" : true}	Updates the emailInfo object (representation of the email meta data in the mailbox. Currently, only the isRead field is supported.
GET	/api/mailbox/{mailbox}/email/{emailId}/attachments/{filename}		Downloads a specific attachment form an email
DELETE	/api/mailbox/{mailbox}/email/{emailId}		Deletes a specific email
DELETE	/api/mailbox/{mailbox}		Deletes a whole mailbox

Google Analytics

AHEM server is ready for google analytics. By default, when you set it up, it will not send information to GA though. If you'd like to enable GA, add the snippet below in your /client/index.html file's head section, and rebuild the project. Replace XX-XXXXXXXXX-X with your GA id.

  <script>
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
        (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
      m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

    ga('create', 'XX-XXXXXXXXX-X', 'auto');
  </script>

Todo for 1.0

• Error page when user/email doesn't exist.
• Empty mail page
• Landing page
• Errors on find user/email in api
• Error on non existing user / message
• routing for messages
• read/unread icons
• attachments
• allow delete emails
• migrate to mongodb
• update missing emails page and loading circles
• sort out logging
• separate mailbox view from email view pages
• separate server and webapp properties
• better home page
• Add apis to get mailbox references from email, get mailbox and email counts - both general and in mailbox context

Authors

• Oren Geva

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details