# billzhong/inbox.py

Python SMTP Server for Humans

Repository: https://github.com/billzhong/inbox.py
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/inboxpy
Homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/inbox.py
Language: Python
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2016-07-11T17:18:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5241, "days_push": 3705, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1501, forks 135 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:54.277641+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: email, http-server, concurrency
- domain: email, backend, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: smtp-server, async, email-receiving

## Member repositories
- billzhong/inbox.py (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.277641+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:55.604525+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/billzhong/inbox.py (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.277641+00:00, sha bb3ae51eade4)
  - homepage: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/inbox.py (fetched 2026-08-29T11:37:49.622052+00:00, sha 115d3c730a78)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.