Installation of MailHog on CentOS 7

mailhog-install.sh

## Install packages
sudo yum install wget curl vim epel-release
sudo yum install daemonize.x86_64

## Install mailhog
wget https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v0.2.0/MailHog_linux_amd64
sudo chmod +x MailHog_linux_amd64
sudo chown root:root MailHog_linux_amd64
sudo mv MailHog_linux_amd64 /usr/sbin/mailhog

## Install mailhog initd service
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-mailhog/master/templates/mailhog.init.j2
sudo chown root:root mailhog.init.j2
sudo chmod +x mailhog.init.j2
sudo mv mailhog.init.j2 /etc/init.d/mailhog

###  Fix the paths in the mailhog init.d file
sudo vim /etc/init.d/mailhog

## Start mailhog
sudo chkconfig mailhog on
sudo service mailhog start

Thinking something like the following may work: https://tuttlem.github.io/2018/02/03/create-a-systemd-daemon.html

oooh. nice find! i'll give that a whirl in the next day or two and keep you posted. thank you. :)

if this is something you can easily fix, i'd be most grateful. if there's something i can easily do on my end, i'm equally open to that as well.