This project is archived, as I don't use Mailbox.org anymore and therefore I cannot test any potential changes. Feel free to fork it or use one of the existing forks instead.
Unoffical command line "client" for managing mailbox.org disposable addresses.
TBH it's hard to call it client - it does not use API for achieve its goals, as there is no API for that feature.
What it does it pretends to be browser and interacts with management panel in good-old form-based way.
You can download prebuilt binary from Releases page, but at the moment macOS binary isn't signed & notarized so you will get a warning that application cannot be verified.
If you have Go installed, you can either:
- install it from source
go install github.com/singles/mailbox-org-cli@latest
- clone repository and build it by yourself:
go build .
(requires Go 1.17)
Command line "client" for mailbox.org dispossable addresses feature
mailbox-org-cli 0.1.0
Usage: mailbox-org-cli --username USERNAME [--password PASSWORD] [--password-on-stdin] <command> [<args>]
Options:
--username USERNAME mailbox.org username [env: MAILBOX_ORG_USERNAME]
--password PASSWORD mailbox.org password [env: MAILBOX_ORG_PASSWORD]
--password-on-stdin read password from stdin
--help, -h display this help and exit
--version display version and exit
Commands:
list list dispossable addresses
renew renew dispossable address
delete delete dispossable address
set-memo set-memo on existing dispossable address
create create new dispossable address with optional memo
Here is an example how you can use this command with password manager:
$ pass Email/mailbox.org | mailbox-org-cli --username [email protected] --password-on-stdin list
[
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"memo": "foo bar",
"expires": "2022-02-28"
},
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"memo": "", # there's no memo set
"expires": "2022-03-31"
}
]
All output is JSON, so you will probably need something like jq
to extract specific data. Using example output above this command will copy first item's email into clipboard (pbcopy
on macOS):
mailbox-org-cli ... list | jq --raw '.[0].email' | pbcopy
- mailbox.org's dispossable addresses have expiry date. But can be extended as many times as required. So if you want to have "permanent" address, just set cron every, lets say, 2 weeks with
mailbox-org-cli renew
. - as this is CLI tool, you can easily integrate it with some launcher like Alfred
- ...your idea :)
- Why it's in Go instead of JS/Python/PHP/other-scripting-language ?
First version was based on JS, but then I realized that I wanted single binary which can be run on scratch
, without any JS, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc interpreter installed.
Technically - this could be written as a Bash script contining some curl
s and HTML parsing, but see above :)
- Why there are no tests?
Because of how surf
works, it's hard to "feed" it with stubbed HTML content. Other solutions include using some HTTP mocking library or setuping some local mock server. Also, this isn't a tool which gets 23 releases per month, so I'm "testing" it manually.
- Why does it use
username
/password
instead of token?
Becasue I didn't find a way to generate application token in Mailbox.org interface. Official API also requires username/password and gives you token which is valid only for 20 minutes.
One could probably use PHPSESSID
but extracting this requires you either to dig into browser's Dev Tools or CLI tool should store it somewhere after first login.
Due to the fact that this tool isn't making dozens of API requests in one call and how fast login process is, ATM username/password is the way to go.