MailHog is a popular email testing tool that is widely used by developers across the globe. In this tutorial, we will be learning how to install MailHog on Kali Linux.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following components installed on your Kali Linux system:
If you are unsure whether these components are installed on your system, you can use the following command to verify:
$ git --version
$ go version
If the above command does not show the versions of the components, then you should install them using the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git
$ sudo apt-get install golang
Once you have both Git and Go installed on your Kali Linux system, you are ready to install MailHog. You can install it using the following steps:
Open the terminal window on your Kali Linux system.
Run the following command to clone the MailHog repository:
git clone https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog.git
Once the repository is cloned, navigate to the /MailHog folder using the following command:
cd MailHog
Next, build the MailHog binary using the following command:
go build
Once the build is complete, you can start MailHog using the following command:
./MailHog
Note: By default, MailHog listens on port 1025 for SMTP traffic and port 8025 for the web interface. Make sure these ports are not being used by any other service on your system before running MailHog.
You can access the MailHog web interface by opening a browser and going to http://localhost:8025. Here, you can view any emails that are sent to MailHog from your application.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install MailHog on Kali Linux. You can now use this tool to test the email functionality of your applications.
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