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What's an email server I could route a simple, non-encrypted SMTP request through manually?

I have a pretty basic networking assignment where I have to make a manual SMTP request (with the HELO, MAIL FROM:, and the like) as the client to the SMTP server in order to send an email.

It doesn't seem like you can do this anymore with Gmail, as it requires an encrypted SMTP request for obvious reasons.

I know I can do this with OpenSSL, but this is to be build with Python and it seems like an external library would have to be used for this, which isn't allowed on the assignment.

So if possible I'd like to be able to submit this unencrypted for simplicity's sake. Are there any test servers to send non-encrypted SMTP over now a days?

Solution

  • Inbox.py is here to save you (made by the author of python-requests: Kenneth Reitz), it's a very simple SMTP server "made for Humans".

    Useful for your test purpose, I think.