InboxFox finds a new home

InboxFox now ships direct from skulkworks.dev. It's the same local SMTP inbox for testing the mail your app sends, but it's a notarized, Developer ID-signed download with automatic updates, which means fixes reach you when I ship them instead of when review gets to them.

If you don't know it: point your app's SMTP settings at 127.0.0.1:1025 and every message it sends lands in InboxFox instantly. You get rendered HTML, plain text, full headers, and the raw RFC822 source, attachments parsed out and previewed with Quick Look, full-text search, and a quality report that scores each message for deliverability, compatibility, and accessibility. Nothing is relayed and nothing leaves your Mac.

Pricing works like the rest of the apps now. You get everything for 14 days, no account and no card. After that InboxFox stays free forever and keeps capturing unlimited mail in a single inbox, so it never turns into a nag screen. A one-time $9.99 license, good for 3 Macs, adds a separate inbox per SMTP username, a custom bind address for Docker containers and VMs, a custom port, and the HTTP API for driving it from integration tests.

Already bought it on the Mac App Store? You don't pay again. Download the direct build and it spots your existing purchase on launch and unlocks itself, offline, with no key to type. Do it in the right order though: dragging the new version into Applications replaces the App Store copy and deletes the receipt the migration reads, so follow the migration steps before you install. If you want your other Macs covered, it can email you a permanent license key from inside the app. InboxFox stays on the App Store too, so nothing breaks if you'd rather stick with it.

It runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on both Apple silicon and Intel. Get it from the InboxFox page or with Homebrew: brew install --cask skulkworks/tap/inboxfox. Release notes live in the changelog.