MailHog installation on Ubuntu

mailhog-install.md

Install & Configure MailHog

1. Download and make it executable

wget https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_linux_amd64
sudo cp MailHog_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/mailhog
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mailhog

2. Make MailHog as a service

%user% = your username in the system

sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/mailhog.service <<EOL
[Unit]
Description=Mailhog
After=network.target
[Service]
User=%user%
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env /usr/local/bin/mailhog > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOL

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable mailhog

3. Configure php.ini file (for needed version)

sudo sed -i "s/;sendmail_path.*/sendmail_path='\/usr\/local\/bin\/mailhog sendmail magento-dev@example.com'/" /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
sudo sed -i "s/;sendmail_path.*/sendmail_path='\/usr\/local\/bin\/mailhog sendmail magento-dev@example.com'/" /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

4. Restart Apache to apply changes in php.ini file.

sudo service apache2 restart

5. Open url in browser

http://localhost:8025/

6. When any php script send an email, it will be catched by MailHog and you can read it in the UI.

7. Configuring MailHog

Add to your .bashrc

# Set message storage: memory | mongodb | maildir
export MH_STORAGE=maildir

This is great, thanks. Helped me out to install Mailhog on a local ubuntu server. But the problem I now have is that my ubuntu server has nog GUI. So I need to access this on the server from my browser on my own PC. Any idea of how to do that?

This is great, thanks. Helped me out to install Mailhog on a local ubuntu server. But the problem I now have is that my ubuntu server has nog GUI. So I need to access this on the server from my browser on my own PC. Any idea of how to do that?

You would access it via http://{your_server_ip}}:8025

I had to start mailhog service before enabling mailhog.
systemctl start mailhog

Thanks a lot for this

Hello,
It does not work on Ubuntu server. even after installing Apache.
An idea what is wrong ?

XXX@mailhog:~$ systemctl status
● mailhog
State: degraded //(in red)
Jobs: 0 queued
Failed: 1 units // (in red)
Since: Mon 2020-05-18 10:52:30 UTC; 1h 44min ago
CGroup: /

Note: I installed apache2. I am using Ubuntu server 18

Not sure which version of Ubuntu is in mind here but here on my 18.04 LTS I got:

systemctl start mailhog
Failed to start mailhog.service: Unit mailhog.service is not loaded properly: Exec format error.
See system logs and 'systemctl status mailhog.service' for details.

And status says:

systemctl status mailhog.service
● mailhog.service - Mailhog
   Loaded: error (Reason: Exec format error)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Jun 29 10:06:29 hostname systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/mailhog.service:5: Invalid user/group name or numeric ID: rootser%

I changed User to root and added Group root and then it started. But then I see gibberish on the screen:

What is missing?