Using NiFi As an SMTP (Email) Test Server

Tim Spann
2 min readMay 20, 2023

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Yes, it is true. Email can act as a basic, no security, receiver of SMTP traffic; it can then pass it along. So besides just for testing or acting as a local Email sink for alerts and other generated events. You can also use it as a basic SMTP Proxy sending all SMTP messages somewhere with routing and enrichment.

If you wish to retry something, use Retry processor.

To send email, is even easier with PutEmail.

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ListenSMTP 1.20.0

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Tim Spann

Principal Developer Advocate, Zilliz. Milvus, Attu, Towhee, GenAI, Big Data, IoT, Deep Learning, Streaming, Machine Learning. https://www.datainmotion.dev/