In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MailCatcher on NetBSD. MailCatcher is a tool that allows you to catch all email sent from your application and display it in a web interface. This is useful for debugging and testing purposes.
Before you begin this tutorial, ensure that you have the following:
MailCatcher is written in Ruby, so you need to install Ruby and RubyGems first. To do this, run the following command:
pkg_add ruby rubygems
Once you have installed Ruby and RubyGems, you can install MailCatcher with the following command:
gem install mailcatcher
To start MailCatcher, run the following command:
mailcatcher --ip 0.0.0.0
The --ip 0.0.0.0 option allows MailCatcher to be accessible from other machines on your network.
Once MailCatcher is running, open your web browser and navigate to http://<server-ip>:1080. You should see the MailCatcher web interface.
From here, you can send email from your application and see it appear in the MailCatcher interface.
To make sure that MailCatcher starts automatically whenever your system boots up, you can create a systemd service file.
Create a file called /etc/systemd/system/mailcatcher.service with the following contents:
[Unit]
Description=MailCatcher
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mailcatcher --ip 0.0.0.0
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then, reload the systemd daemon and enable the service:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable mailcatcher
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailCatcher on NetBSD. You can now use it to catch and debug all email sent from your application.
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