MailCatcher is an open-source program that allows you to intercept email sent from your application and view it in a web interface. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install MailCatcher on EndeavourOS latest.
Before getting started, ensure that your system has the following:
Before installing MailCatcher, you need to install Ruby, which is required for MailCatcher to run.
To install Ruby, open the terminal and execute the following command:
sudo pacman -S ruby
After running the command above, Ruby will be installed on your system.
Once you have installed Ruby, you can now install MailCatcher. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo gem install mailcatcher
This will install MailCatcher on your system.
Once MailCatcher is installed, you can start it by running the following command in your terminal:
mailcatcher
After running this command, MailCatcher will be up and running. You can access the web interface by opening your web browser and navigating to http://127.0.0.1:1080/
Now that MailCatcher is installed and running, you need to configure your application to use it.
To do this, open your application's configuration file and change the mail settings to the following:
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', port: 3000 }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { address: 'localhost', port: 1025 }
After configuring your application to use MailCatcher, send an email from your application and ensure that it is intercepted by MailCatcher.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:1080/, where you will see the email that you sent.
If you can see the email, congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured MailCatcher in EndeavourOS latest.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure MailCatcher on EndeavourOS latest. With MailCatcher, you can intercept email sent from your application without the need for an actual email server.
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