MailHog VS Exim

Mailhog

hey HN, I recently published an article going deep into email previewing (in Ruby on Rails, but I think it's relevant beyond Rails).

MailCatcher (https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher) and MailHog (https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) are super handy and easy to run locally. Both spin up an SMTP server which you can direct mail to, and give you a nice web interface to browse mail and preview it.

Happy to answer any question! thanks, harrison

https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog This is set up for our test environments. Worth looking into

Does it say it's being send on localhost or on production? How is it "saying" it's being sent. We just setup mailhog to test emails for local development.

They should definitely invest in a chaos monkey (like Jim https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/blob/master/docs/JIM.md)

depends on the infrastructre setup, but if you're able to specify smtp server the backend will use you can you something like https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog or https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev to catch any sent email, regardless of email address and read it via the respective api. Both mailhog and smtp4dev have decent api documentation.

Documentation for ARC is pretty sparse.

The instructions for setting it up in Exim (default MTA on Debian systems) can be found here: https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/doc/doc-txt/experim...

(AFAICT, there is absolutely no mention of ARC in the main Exim documentation: https://exim.org/docs.html)

Exim:​​​​​https://www.exim.org/

EXIM is a popular option, though it seems to be subject to just as many vulnerabilities and exploits as exchange is.. so either way you go make sure to patch regularly

Run your own. Usually with Exim or Postfix.

I can either direct particular addresses to a mailbox on the VPS where they can be retrieved with POP3, or can forward them to any arbitrary address. Or anything else I can configure exim to do.

I use Exim