1.3 KiB
1.3 KiB
A short app for showcasing Mailhog
How to send email?
- use personal smtp (from FAI, gmail, work)
- won't work because of the sender
- I don't want to send with my personal account!
- use a transactional email provider
- eg. Mailchimp, Sendinblue
- good for production
- but do we really need this for dev or testing environments?
- setup a full-blown smtp server
- email is hard
- who has time for this on a dev environment?
- who has time for this on a test environment?
- setup a quik'n'dirty fake smtp server
- python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
- better, but...
- (show screenshot)
- setup a proper fake smtp server
- a few names: Mailcatcher, Maildev, Mailhog
- Mailhog: free software, easy to install (go, docker)
- wget https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.1/MailHog_linux_amd64
- docker run -d -p 1025:1025 -p 8025:8025 mailhog/mailhog
Other problems with sending mail
- in dev/testing env, we don't really want to send to the actual recipients
- but we still want to craft the email for them
Other benefits
- can test email displays as wanted
- can check attachments (receipt, invoice...)
- API -> can be used in unit tests / CI
- Test deliverability issues with Jim: MailHog's Chaos Monkey