MailHog is a simple tool for intercepting and viewing email traffic during development. You can use it to inspect and test emails sent from your application without actually sending them to real addresses.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MailHog on your Fedora Server Latest machine.
Before you proceed with the installation, you need to ensure that you have the following tools installed on your Fedora Server Latest machine:
You can install Docker and Git using the following command:
sudo dnf install docker git
Once you've installed these tools, follow the steps below to install MailHog:
First, you need to clone the MailHog repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog.git
This will create a new folder named MailHog in your current directory, which contains the MailHog source code.
Next, you need to build the MailHog Docker image. To do this, navigate to the MailHog folder and run the following command:
cd MailHog
sudo docker build -t mailhog .
This will create a new Docker image named mailhog that you can use to start a MailHog container.
Once you've built the MailHog Docker image, the next step is to start a MailHog container.
To do this, run the following command:
sudo docker run -d -p 1025:1025 -p 8025:8025 mailhog
This command will start a new Docker container with MailHog running inside it. The -d option tells Docker to run the container in detached mode, which means that it will continue to run in the background.
The -p options map the container's ports to the corresponding ports on your host machine. MailHog uses port 1025 to receive emails, and port 8025 to serve its web interface.
Once you've started the MailHog container, you can test it by sending an email to a fake address.
You can do this by running the following command:
echo "Test Email" | mail -s "Test Subject" test@example.com
This command sends a simple email to the fake address test@example.com. MailHog intercepts the email and displays it in its web interface, which you can access by navigating to http://localhost:8025 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailHog on your Fedora Server Latest machine. You can use it to test and inspect emails sent by your application during development.
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