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