In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install MailCatcher, a simple SMTP server that catches any email sent to it and displays it in its web interface.
MailCatcher requires Ruby to be installed on your system. To check if Ruby is installed, execute the following command in the terminal:
ruby -v
If Ruby is not installed, you can install it by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
To install MailCatcher, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo gem install mailcatcher
This command will download and install MailCatcher and all its dependencies.
To start MailCatcher, run the following command in the terminal:
mailcatcher
MailCatcher will start running on http://127.0.0.1:1080.
To test if MailCatcher is working correctly, open a web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:1080. You should see the MailCatcher web interface displaying any emails that have been sent to it.
To use MailCatcher in your application, you will need to configure your application to send emails to MailCatcher instead of a real SMTP server.
The SMTP configuration for MailCatcher is as follows:
127.0.0.11025You can find more information on how to configure your application to use MailCatcher in the official MailCatcher documentation.
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured MailCatcher on Elementary OS Latest.
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