With Kirby, you can use multiple config files for different environments, so you can set up email transportation with MailHog for local development and with some other configuration for staging or production. The easiest way to do so, it to set up email transportation in your (local) config file: /site/config/config.php return [

Once MailHog is installed and running on your system, you can start using it with Kirby.

If your system already uses ports 1025/8025 for other services, you can configure MailHog to use other settings. See the MailHog documentation for details.īy default, MailHog runs with the following default settings: You can either download the latest release for your platform from GitHub, or install with Homebrew on Mac, or on Linux install Go and then download MailHog from GitHub. MailHog has some more interesting features that you can find in the feature list, including an API to list, retrieve and delete message or an option to release message to real SMTP servers. MailHog is also available as a Docker image, so if you are using Docker, you don't have to install MailHog on your system. MailHog runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

MailHog catches all mail sent to it and stores them for display in a web-based user interface for you to view. It allows you to configure your application to send mail to MailHog instead of to your default SMTP server. MailHog is an Open Source email testing tool with a fake SMTP server underneath. However, for all these services you need an account, and that's probably not what you want. Many of these services also have a free tier for a limited amount of mails, and thus offer themselves for testing during development. One option is certainly the use of services like MailChimp and many others, which are not only useful for sending newsletters, but can also be used to send transactional emails. Additionally, you might even hurt your email address if you test with your private email as sender. You have to set up your local webserver to enable mail and waste a lot of time waiting for mail to arrive in your inbox if it arrives at all.

Testing contact forms or other outgoing email from your website/app locally can be a real pain.

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