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Mailpit Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Catch and inspect every email your apps send — one click, no real inboxes. xCloud configures the pinned Mailpit container, a dedicated authenticated SMTP port, persistent storage for captured messages and an HTTPS-proxied web UI, without ever relaying a message onward.

Deploy your Mailpit
  • No terminal
  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

From Sign-Up to a Live Mailpit In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Mailpit normally means a container, a domain, a certificate and a way to reach an SMTP port before a single test email lands anywhere. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick Mailpit from the OneClick catalog. Choose a site title and domain — xCloud generates the web UI and SMTP passwords for you.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up the pinned Mailpit 1.30.7 image, mount mailpit_data for captured messages, publish the web UI over HTTPS on your domain, and open a dedicated SMTP port on the server.

  3. Step 03

    Point Your Apps At It

    Sign in to the **web UI** with username `admin` and the generated password from the credentials panel. Then set your application's SMTP host to the server IP and the SMTP port, username `smtp`, and the generated SMTP password.

Everything Mailpit Does, On Your Own Server

Mailpit runs in full here — the same features as any hosted offering, capturing mail on infrastructure you control instead of forwarding it anywhere.

  • A Safe SMTP Sink

    Every message your apps send lands in Mailpit instead of a real inbox — nothing is ever relayed or forwarded onward, so test mail stays test mail.

  • Read It The Way It Was Sent

    Open a message as rendered HTML, plain text or raw source, with full headers alongside — useful for debugging a template as much as reading one.

  • Attachments, Inspected

    View and download whatever your app attached to a message, without needing a real mail client on the other end.

  • Search The Mailbox

    Find a specific message across everything captured, then mark it read or delete it once you're done with it.

  • A REST API For Your Test Suite

    Query captured messages programmatically, so a CI run can assert on the email an app just sent instead of eyeballing an inbox.

  • Runs On Your Server

    Captured mail lives on infrastructure you control — no vendor holding the data and no export process to go through.

Everything You Need To Run Your Email Testing 24/7

Managed hosting for Mailpit, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

  • Mailpit 1.30.7 deployed instantly
  • Pinned, verified multi-arch image
  • Authenticated web UI and SMTP port
  • Dedicated SMTP ingress, not proxied
  • Free SSL certificate for the web UI
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • 30+ server locations
  • Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Mailpit. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Most popular

A single testing or staging SMTP sink.

$24.99per month

  • 6 GB RAM
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 100 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Higher message volume across several environments.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Mailpit alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

  • 24 GB RAM
  • 8 vCPU cores
  • 300 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Mailpit itself is free and open source under the MIT licence.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Mailpit on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Start your journey without cost.

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  • 1 server
  • 10 sites
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Starter

Most popular

Your rate with 2–5 servers connected.

$5per server / month

  • 2–5 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Professional

The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

  • 6–10 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
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Agency

The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

  • 11+ servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Own Your Test Inbox?

Mailpit on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the captured mail. Stay in control.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Mailpit?

An open-source email and SMTP testing tool. It captures outbound mail from your applications, stores it, and lets you inspect every message in a fast web UI or through a REST API, instead of delivering it to a real recipient. This template deploys version 1.30.7.

Does Mailpit relay or forward my test emails anywhere?

No. Mailpit only captures and stores whatever is sent to it — it never relays or forwards a message onward to a real mailbox. That is what makes it safe to point a staging or development environment at: nothing you send through it can ever reach a real inbox by accident.

How many messages does it keep?

By default Mailpit keeps the most recent 5,000 messages and prunes older ones automatically. It is a testing sink, not an archive — if you need to keep a message, export or check it before the cap rolls past it, and back up the data volume if longer retention matters to you.

How do I point my app's SMTP settings at Mailpit?

Use the server IP and SMTP port shown in the credentials panel as the SMTP host and port, username `smtp`, and the generated SMTP password, with no encryption. The SMTP port is a raw, authenticated TCP port — it is not proxied through the web domain the way the UI is.

Can I sign in to the web UI right away?

Yes. Open the installed URL and sign in with username `admin` and the generated web UI password from the credentials panel — both are created for you at deploy time, so there is no first-run setup.

Can I change the web UI or SMTP password later?

Yes, but only from the Environment editor. Both credentials are read from the environment on every boot, so an edit made anywhere else — inside the container, for instance — will not persist. Change them in the Environment editor and Save & Redeploy.

Is the SMTP port reachable from outside my server?

Yes, by design — it is not proxied, so any of your other apps or servers can deliver mail to it over the open internet using the generated SMTP credentials. If you only ever send to it from this same server, restrict the port with your firewall.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 256 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 1 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, comfortably above that — the extra headroom mostly buys room for message volume and backup retention, not the application itself.

What survives a restart, and what should I back up?

Captured messages live on the persistent mailpit_data volume, which survives an xCloud Restart. Back that volume up if you need to keep messages beyond Mailpit's own 5,000-message cap — there is no separate export step, but a restored volume only ever brings back what was captured before the cap pruned it.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically update Mailpit?

No. The template pins Mailpit 1.30.7 by a verified multi-architecture image digest; a catalog re-sync affects new installations only. Before upgrading, review the release notes, update the pinned tag or digest, back up the data volume, and verify sign-in and a representative send-and-capture afterward.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Mailpit?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Mailpit project (axllent/mailpit) has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source project.

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It is a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there — a common pattern is one server running the apps under test plus this Mailpit instance as their shared SMTP sink.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.

Related resources

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