MailHog is an email testing tool that allows you to view emails sent by your application without actually sending them to real email addresses. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install MailHog on Elementary OS Latest.
Before you start, you need to make sure that you have the following:
MailHog requires Golang to be installed on your system. If you don't have Golang installed on your system, you can install it by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install golang
Once you have installed Golang, you can install MailHog by performing the following steps:
Open your terminal.
Clone the MailHog repository by running the following command:
go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog
This will install MailHog in your $GOPATH/bin directory. To check if the installation was successful, run the following command:
$GOPATH/bin/MailHog
If MailHog starts up correctly, you will see a message similar to the following:
[SMTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:1025
[HTTP] Binding to address: 0.0.0.0:8025
Once you have installed MailHog, you need to configure it to start automatically when you start your system. You can do this by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc file:
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin/
To start MailHog, open your terminal and run the following command:
MailHog
This will start MailHog on your local machine. You can access the MailHog web interface by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8025.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailHog on Elementary OS Latest. You can now use MailHog to test email functionality in your applications.
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