rmunn
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4 months ago After discussion in the team meeting, we decided that lack of recent maintenance doesn't matter much in a dev-only tool that is never deployed to production, so we don't need to pay the price of switching to another tool.
The maildev project seems to be only sporadically maintained: https://github.com/maildev/maildev/commits/master/ shows a spurt of commits on July 20, 2023, but before that the previous meaningful commits (except for trivial README.md updates) was on May 18, 2022. Back in January 2021 the maildev maintainer said "... I have to admit that I no longer have the proper time to commit to this project ..." and that doesn't seem to have changed recently, if the commit history is any indication.
I recently learned about https://github.com/inbucket/inbucket which appears to have a rather similar interface to maildev, so our E2E tests would need to change but hopefully wouldn't have to change too much. It's under far more active development than maildev (inbucket's last commit was 3 weeks ago as of when I'm writing this), so it might be a good candidate to switch to. But there appear to be many alternatives.