Web and API based SMTP testing
Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install.
Built with Go - MailHog runs without installation on multiple platforms.
Overview
MailHog is an email testing tool for developers:
Installation Manual installation
Download the latest release for your platform. Then read the deployment guide for deployment options.
MacOS
brew update && brew install mailhog
Then, start MailHog by running mailhog
in the command line.
Debian / Ubuntu Go < v1.18
sudo apt-get -y install golang-go go get github.com/mailhog/MailHogGo >= v1.17 (Debian Bookworm)
sudo apt-get -y install golang-go go install github.com/mailhog/MailHog@latest
Then, start MailHog by running /path/to/MailHog
in the command line.
E.g. the path to Go's bin files on Ubuntu is ~/go/bin/
, so to start the MailHog run:
~/go/bin/MailHogFreeBSD
pkg install mailhog sysrc mailhog_enable="YES" service mailhog startDocker
Run it from Docker Hub or using the provided Dockerfile
Configuration
Check out how to configure MailHog, or use the default settings:
Features
See MailHog libraries for a list of MailHog client libraries.
mhsendmail is a sendmail replacement for MailHog.
It redirects mail to MailHog using SMTP.
You can also use MailHog sendmail ...
instead of the separate mhsendmail binary.
Alternatively, you can use your native sendmail
command by providing -S
, for example:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -S mail:1025
For example, in PHP you could add either of these lines to php.ini
:
sendmail_path = /usr/local/bin/mhsendmail
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -S mail:1025
Web UI
Contributing
MailHog is a rewritten version of MailHog, which was born out of M3MTA.
Clone this repository to $GOPATH/src/github.com/mailhog/MailHog
and type make deps
.
See the Building MailHog guide.
Requires Go 1.4+ to build.
Run tests using make test
or goconvey
.
If you make any changes, run go fmt ./...
before submitting a pull request.
Licence
Copyright © 2014 - 2017, Ian Kent (http://iankent.uk)
Released under MIT license, see LICENSE for details.
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