test-email-cli

test-email-cli is a cli application for generating and managing test email addresses.

Installation

To install, make sure you have node installed

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Then install test-email-cli globally

npm install -g test-email-cli

Before using it the first time, make sure to initialize the configuration

test-email init

Use

To generate a new test email address, run test-email generate

test-email generate
> doug+2016-11-17-1@dougwade.io

You may also want to pipe the results to your clipboard directly with xclip (on Linux) or pbcopy

test-email generate | xclip
# doug+2016-11-17-2@dougwade.io is now on the clipboard

You can search old generated test emails with test-email find

test-email find
> doug+2016-11-17-1@dougwade.io

You can limit searches by date and by ticket number, if provided when generated

test-email generate
> doug+2016-11-17-1@dougwade.io
test-email generate --ticket=1
> doug+2016-11-17-2@dougwade.io
test-email find --date=2016-11-17 --ticket=1
> doug+2016-11-17-2@dougwade.io

To get help, or to get the list of all sub commands, simply run help

test-email help

help is also used to discover how to use sub commands

test-email help init
> Set up configuration for example. Runs interactive commands to walk you through setting up config.
> Usage:
>     test-email init
>     # output from test-email

To update test-email, use update

test-email update

Though if you haven't updated in a while, test-email-cli will remind you 😀

Before you run any commands, you'll need to set up some config by running init

test-email init

Then follow the prompts