Greenmail and Thunderbird

Dockerfile

FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine AS base

ENV GREENMAIL_OPTS -Dgreenmail.setup.test.all -Dgreenmail.hostname=0.0.0.0 -Dgreenmail.smtp.hostname=localhost -Dgreenmail.verbose

RUN apk add --no-cache curl

RUN curl -O http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/icegreen/greenmail-standalone/1.5.9/greenmail-standalone-1.5.9.jar

FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine AS final

COPY --from=base /greenmail-standalone-1.5.9.jar /greenmail-standalone-1.5.9.jar

EXPOSE 3025 3465 3143 3993 3110 3995

CMD /usr/bin/java $GREENMAIL_OPTS -jar greenmail-standalone-1.5.9.jar

How to build the docker image

Build:

docker build -t greenmail:latest .

Run:

docker run -t -i -p3025:3025 -p3110:3110 greenmail/latest

Jar execution command

java -Dgreenmail.smtp.hostname=localhost 
-Dgreenmail.hostname=0.0.0.0
-Dgreenmail.setup.test.smtp 
-Dgreenmail.setup.test.pop3 
-Dgreenmail.users=aniko:12345@localhost,zsolt:12345@localhost 
-Dgreenmail.verbose 
-jar greenmail-standalone-1.5.9.jar

Thunderbird config

Thunderbird:

Start thunderbird with profile (thunderbird -p)

Create a new profile with name aniko

aniko
aniko@localhost
12345

smtp: 3025  localhost
pop3: 3110  localhost

Write an email to zsolt@localhost

Restart thunderbird with -p argument

Create a second profile with name zsolt

zsolt
zsolt@localhost
12345

smtp: 3025  localhost
pop3: 3110  localhost

You will see a new email received

Virtualbox settings

If we have a windows host, and running the docker in a virtual machine, then the port forwarding
has to be set:

Protocol | Host IP   | Host port | Guest ip | Guest port 
TCP      | 127.0.0.1 | 3025      |          | 3025
TCP      | 127.0.0.1 | 3110      |          | 3110