MailHog/docs/DEPLOY.md

Deploying MailHog

Command line

You can run MailHog locally from the command line.

go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog
MailHog -h

To configure MailHog, use the environment variables or command line flags described in the README.

Using supervisord/upstart/etc

MailHog can be started as a daemon using supervisord/upstart/etc.

See this example init script and this Ansible role by geerlingguy.

Docker

The example Dockerfile can be used to run MailHog in a Docker container.

Elastic Beanstalk

You can deploy MailHog using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

1. Open the Elastic Beanstalk console
2. Create a zip file containing the Dockerfile and MailHog binary
3. Create a new Elastic Beanstalk application
4. Launch a new environment and upload the zip file

If you're using in-memory storage, you can only use a single instance of MailHog. To use a load balanced EB application, use MongoDB backed storage.

To configure your Elastic Beanstalk MailHog instance, either:

• Set environment variables using the Elastic Beanstalk console
• Edit the Dockerfile to pass in command line arguments

You may face restrictions on outbound SMTP from EC2, for example if you are releasing messages to real SMTP servers.