Mailhog

Mailhog is an e-mail testing tool for developers. This chart creates a Mailhog deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

MailHog is an email testing tool for developers:

• Configure your application to use MailHog for SMTP delivery
• View messages in the web UI, or retrieve them with the JSON API
• Optionally release messages to real SMTP servers for delivery

Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install.

• Download and run MailHog
• Configure your outgoing SMTP server
• View your outgoing email in a web UI
• Release it to a real mail server

Built with Go - MailHog runs without installation on multiple platforms.

Getting started

Either:

• Download the latest release of MailHog for your platform
• Run it from Docker Hub or using the provided Dockerfile
• Read the deployment guide for other deployment options
• Install it with Homebrew on MacOS - brew update && brew install mailhog

Configure MailHog, or use the default settings:

• the SMTP server starts on port 1025
• the HTTP server starts on port 8025
• in-memory message storage

Features

• ESMTP server implementing RFC5321
• Support for SMTP AUTH (RFC4954) and PIPELINING (RFC2920)
• Web interface to view messages (plain text, HTML or source)
• Supports RFC2047 encoded headers
• Real-time updates using EventSource
• Release messages to real SMTP servers
• Chaos Monkey for failure testing
• HTTP API to list, retrieve and delete messages
• HTTP basic authentication for MailHog UI and API
• Multipart MIME support
• Download individual MIME parts
• In-memory message storage
• MongoDB and file-based storage for message persistence
• Lightweight and portable
• No installation required