billzhong/inbox.py
Python SMTP Server for Humans observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5241
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3705
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1501 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Inbox.py is a minimal asynchronous SMTP server library for Python that lets applications receive email with a simple decorator-based handler. It claims to handle over a thousand emails per second per instance.
Use cases
- receive emails in a python app
- run a lightweight smtp server for testing
- handle inbound email webhooks locally
- give my app an inbox
- process incoming email programmatically
When to choose
- you need a dead-simple SMTP receiver in Python with minimal setup
- you want decorator-based email handling without running a full mail server
When to avoid
- you need a production mail server with auth, TLS, and spam filtering
- you need active maintenance or recent Python version support - last release was 2016
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
email http-server concurrency email backend developer-tools python cross-platform smtp-server async email-receiving
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/billzhong/inbox.py · fetched 2026-08-28 · bb3ae51eade4
- homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/inbox.py · fetched 2026-08-29 · 115d3c730a78
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| billzhong/inbox.py | main | 32 |
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