Installing MailCatcher on Arch Linux

MailCatcher is a handy tool that runs a simple SMTP server that catches all mails sent to it and provides a web interface for displaying them. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and set up MailCatcher on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you should make sure that your system is up-to-date by running the following command:

pacman -Syu

You will also need to have Ruby and RubyGems installed on your system. You can install them by running:

pacman -S ruby rubygems

Installing MailCatcher

To install MailCatcher, follow these steps:

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Install MailCatcher by running the following command:

gem install mailcatcher

This may take a few minutes to complete.

3. Once the installation is complete, start MailCatcher by running the following command:

mailcatcher

4. MailCatcher should now be running. You can access the web interface by opening your browser and navigating to http://localhost:1080.

Configuring MailCatcher

By default, MailCatcher listens on 127.0.0.1:1080. If you want to allow access to MailCatcher from other computers on your network, you can specify a different IP address and port number by running:

mailcatcher --ip <IP_ADDRESS> --port <PORT_NUMBER>

For example:

mailcatcher --ip 192.168.1.100 --port 2525

This will run MailCatcher on 192.168.1.100:2525.

You can also configure your email application to use MailCatcher as the SMTP server. The SMTP settings should be as follows:

• Server: 127.0.0.1
• Port: 1025

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install MailCatcher on Arch Linux. You can now use MailCatcher to easily view and test emails sent from your application.

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