MailHog VS maildev

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.

As I said before Maildev is a neat and easy to use SMTP server that is great for development since you can have your application act as though its really sending emails and have that intercepted directly and reviewed in a neat GUI application. It's a nice way to solve the problem of testing emails but you are certainly welcome to do something else, possible dangerous, like actually send emails from your development box :). Again, I want you to start thinking about chaining applications together as a cluster of single purpose containers, all talking to each other via simple conventions and environment variables (for example you might have noticed that the DB_HOST was the same as the name of the database container; Docker does a great job of offering simple conventions like that which really save a lot of setup headache.

This looks quite nice and lean, we started using https://github.com/maildev/maildev especially for the arm64 support.

Reading about maildev, it seems to be a STMP server for testing. I assume then, the problem is in the mail() function.

There are other options besides running a fully blown internal mail server. You could try https://github.com/maildev/maildev or https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog (no longer being developed but still working great) if it is enough for your use case.

I was able to implement a simple verification link that a new user can click to confirm their account. However, my implementation is only up to localhost environment using maildev.

In my case, I used docker-compose to do this, but please read accordingly. Of course, you can also use Docker commands to run it, and even if you don't have Docker environment, you can install and use it with npm command. For more information, please look at official document here .