MailHog is an email testing tool that allows you to test emails during the development process. It intercepts all outgoing emails and allows you to view them in a web interface to ensure that your email templates and functionality work as expected. In this tutorial, we will be installing MailHog on Clear Linux Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation of MailHog, make sure that you have Clear Linux Latest installed on your computer.
MailHog is written in Go, so we need to install it before we proceed.
To do so, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo swupd bundle-add go-basic
This will install Go on your system.
To install MailHog, we need to go to its official Github page and download the latest release:
Open your web browser and go to https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases.
Download the latest release by clicking on the link that ends with "_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz".
Extract the downloaded file using the following command:
tar -xvf MailHog_linux_amd64.tar.gz
The extracted files will be located in a folder named "MailHog_linux_amd64".
To run MailHog, navigate to the "MailHog_linux_amd64" directory that was just created using the following command:
cd MailHog_linux_amd64
Then, run the following command to start MailHog:
./MailHog
This will start the MailHog server, and you will see the following output in your terminal:
[SMTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:1025
[HTTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:8025
MailHog comes with a built-in web interface that allows you to view emails sent through it. To access the web interface, open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8025.
You should now see the MailHog web interface, which displays all emails sent through MailHog.
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed MailHog on Clear Linux Latest. You can now use MailHog to test your emails during the development process.
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