How to Install MailHog on OpenSUSE Latest

MailHog is an email testing tool that intercepts email traffic and displays it in a web interface. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install MailHog on OpenSUSE Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your OpenSUSE Latest system:

• Git
• Go

Step 1: Install MailHog

1. Open a terminal window on your OpenSUSE Latest system.

2. Clone the MailHog repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog.git

3. Change into the MailHog directory:

cd MailHog

4. Build MailHog using the go get command:

go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog

Step 2: Start MailHog

1. Start MailHog using the following command:

MailHog

2. MailHog will now be running on your system. You can access the web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8025.

Step 3: Configure MailHog

By default, MailHog listens on port 8025 and intercepts all email traffic on port 1025. However, you can configure MailHog to listen on a different port or intercept email traffic on a different port.

1. To configure MailHog, create a JSON configuration file:

touch mailhog.json

2. Open the mailhog.json file in a text editor and add the following configuration:

{
  "port": "8025",
  "outgoing-smtp-port": "1025"
}

3. Modify the configuration file as needed to reflect the desired port configuration.

4. Start MailHog using the following command, specifying the path to the configuration file:

MailHog -config mailhog.json

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailHog on your OpenSUSE Latest system. You can now use MailHog to intercept and view email traffic for testing and debugging purposes.

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