mailsandbox: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mailsandbox CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from btafoya/mailsandbox. It costs 1,392 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for MailSandbox, a developer tool that captures test emails sent through SMTP and shows them in a web interface. It also provides a REST API for automation, with Go, Vue, and SQLite components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when starting MailSandbox, changing its SMTP or web ports, developing the interface, building it, or running focused Go tests.
Why use it?
They explain how to run the email-testing environment locally and which commands verify its backend and frontend.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is btafoya/mailsandbox's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mailsandbox itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mailsandbox configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to btafoya/mailsandbox. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/btafoya/mailsandbox

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CLAUDE.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

MailSandbox is an email and SMTP testing tool for developers. It captures emails via SMTP (port 1025), provides a web UI (port 8025) for viewing/testing, and includes a REST API for automation.

Tech Stack: Go 1.24.3 backend, Vue 3 + Bootstrap 5 frontend, SQLite storage, WebSockets for real-time updates

Essential Commands

Running MailSandbox

# Run locally with default settings
go run main.go

# Run with custom ports
go run main.go --smtp 0.0.0.0:1025 --ui 0.0.0.0:8025

Development Workflow

# Frontend development (watch mode)
npm install
npm run watch

# Build for production
npm run package
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-s -w" -o mailsandbox

Testing

# Run Go tests for specific packages
go test ./internal/storage ./server -v

# Run all tests (use -p 1 to avoid parallel execution issues)
go test -p 1 ./internal/storage ./server ./internal/smtpd ./internal/pop3 ./internal/tools ./internal/html2text ./internal/htmlcheck ./internal/linkcheck -v

# Run a single test
go test ./internal/storage -v -run TestSpecificFunction

Code Quality

# Format Go code (REQUIRED before commits)
gofmt -s -w .

# Check Go formatting
gofmt -s -d .

# Lint JavaScript/Vue
npm run lint

# Fix JS/Vue linting issues
npm run lint-fix

Architecture

/internal/          - Private packages (core business logic)
  /smtpd/          - SMTP server implementation
  /storage/        - Database layer (SQLite/RQLite)
  /auth/           - Authentication logic
  /htmlcheck/      - HTML compatibility checking
  /linkcheck/      - Link validation
  /pop3/           - POP3 server (optional)
/server/           - HTTP server and API
  /apiv1/          - REST API v1 endpoints
  /ui-src/         - Vue.js source code
  /ui/             - Compiled/embedded UI assets
  /websockets/     - WebSocket handlers for real-time updates
/config/           - Application configuration
main.go            - Application entry point

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

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mailsandbox CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository btafoya/mailsandbox (8 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,392 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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