MailCatcher is a tool that allows you to catch and inspect emails sent from your application during development. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing MailCatcher on OpenSUSE latest.
Before we can install MailCatcher, we need to make sure that our system has all the necessary dependencies installed. Open a terminal session on your OpenSUSE system and run the following command:
$ sudo zypper install ruby ruby-devel gcc make
This command will install Ruby, Ruby development headers, GCC, and make on your system.
Once you have installed the necessary dependencies, you can install MailCatcher by running the following command:
$ sudo gem install mailcatcher
This command will download and install the MailCatcher gem on your system.
To run MailCatcher, open a new terminal session and type the following command:
$ mailcatcher
This will start the MailCatcher server, which will listen on 127.0.0.1:1080 for incoming SMTP connections.
Now that MailCatcher is running, you can start catching emails sent by your application. To do so, you need to configure your application to use the MailCatcher SMTP server. The configuration will depend on the programming language and email library you are using.
For example, if you are using Ruby on Rails and the mail gem, you can configure your config/environments/development.rb file to use MailCatcher like so:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => "127.0.0.1", :port => 1025 }
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install MailCatcher on OpenSUSE latest. With MailCatcher, you can easily catch and inspect emails sent by your application during development.
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