MailHog is a popular open source tool that mimics an SMTP server and catches emails sent by your application for testing and debugging purposes. It can handle multiple email accounts, and you can view the emails through a web interface. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install MailHog on EndeavourOS latest.
Before we get started, make sure you have the following:
sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib go
## Clone MailHog from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog.git
## Change to the MailHog directory
cd MailHog
## Build MailHog from the source
go build
./MailHog
You should see the following output:
2022/09/14 23:21:23 Using in-memory storage
2022/09/14 23:21:23 [HTTP] Binding to address: :8025
2022/09/14 23:21:23 [HTTP] Listening on 127.0.0.1:8025
2022/09/14 23:21:23 [SMTP] Binding to address: :1025
2022/09/14 23:21:23 [SMTP] Listening on 127.0.0.1:1025
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8025. You should see the MailHog user interface.
Now, your system is ready to catch emails sent by your application. To use MailHog as your mail server, configure your application to send mail to localhost:1025.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailHog on EndeavourOS latest. Now, you can catch emails sent by your application for testing and debugging purposes. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment.
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