mailpit-integration

To test email sending locally without external delivery, you can integrate a local email capture service. This Skill configures Mailpit as a container resource in your .NET Aspire AppHost to intercept and store outgoing emails for inspection.

You can inspect outgoing emails during integration testing by routing SMTP traffic to a local capture tool. This integration provides a web UI and API to view captured HTML, headers, and attachments within your development environment.

Integrating Mailpit for .NET email testing requires configuring the AppHost and using MailKit. MailKit serves as the email sender implementation that routes outgoing SMTP traffic to the Mailpit container for local capture.

Yes, local email testing with this setup supports viewing HTML content and attachments. The integrated capture tool provides a web interface that allows developers to thoroughly inspect intercepted emails during development.

The best way to prevent spamming real inboxes during .NET integration testing is to intercept outgoing mail locally. This Skill uses Mailpit to capture emails within a .NET Aspire container, ensuring messages are never sent externally.