If you are in the development lifecycle and need to quickly test email functionality, you can deploy the codecentric/mailhog image directly within Kubernetes. It will receive all email regardless of address, and from its web interface show you all the email that has been received. In this article, I will show you how to deploy … Kubernetes: running a mail container for testing email during development
Update Jan 2022: If you would rather have a mail server running in Kubernetes, see my article here. There are many reasons you might want your own Postfix server: maybe you need to test various relay settings, or validate the ability of your mail script to use TLS, or maybe you are a developer that … Docker: Running a Postfix container for testing mail during development
Although sending a plain text message through an unauthenticated SMTP relay might be easily done with a few lines of Python code, sending rich HTML email through authenticated relays or via the Gmail API using OAuth2 requires a bit of work. In this article, I will provide sample code for sending rich HTML email with … Python: Sending HTML emails via Gmail API or SMTP relay
The Windows Zabbix Agent provides a native interface to the Windows Performance Counters. and Event Log. This means that with minimal overhead, and no additional shells out to Powerscript or the command line, you can collect any of the metrics available from PerfMon or Event Viewer.
SMTP mail relays exposed to the internet typically use a combination of SSL and authenticated SMTP to avoid abuse by malicious actors. This is an excellent choice from a security perspective, but makes smoke testing a bit more complex than just opening telnet.
When working from the Windows command line, you can do a quick test to validate your SMTP connectivity using PowerShell: c:\> Powershell -executionpolicy bypass PS c:\> Send-MailMessage –to <TO> –from <FROM> –subject “testing123” –body “this is a test” –smtpserver <SMTPServer> -port 25 And if the mail server is accessed over TLS/SSL with SMTP authentication … Sending SMTP Mail from Windows Using PowerShell