How to Install MailHog on Fedora CoreOS Latest

In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the process of installing MailHog from Github on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Prerequisites

  • A running Fedora CoreOS Latest instance
  • System privileges (root/sudo access)
  • A GitHub account

Installation

  1. First, you need to download the MailHog binary from GitHub. You can do this using the wget command:

    $ wget https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_linux_amd64
    
  2. Next, you need to make the downloaded binary file executable:

    $ chmod +x MailHog_linux_amd64
    
  3. Then, you need to move the binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory:

    $ sudo mv MailHog_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/mailhog
    
  4. Now that the binary file is installed, you need to create a systemd service file for MailHog. Create a file named mailhog.service in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory:

    $ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mailhog.service
    
  5. Paste the following configuration into this file:

    [Unit]
    Description=MailHog
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mailhog
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    
  6. Save and close the file.

  7. Now, you can start the MailHog service by running the following command:

    $ sudo systemctl start mailhog
    
  8. You can check the status of the MailHog service by running:

    $ sudo systemctl status mailhog
    

    If everything is working properly, you should see something similar to the following:

    ● mailhog.service - MailHog
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mailhog.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-08-02 08:48:46 EDT; 2s ago
    Main PID: 977 (mailhog)
    Tasks: 6 (limit: 1119)
    Memory: 6.0M
    CGroup: /system.slice/mailhog.service
        └─977 /usr/local/bin/mailhog
    
  9. Finally, you can enable the MailHog service to start automatically at boot time by running:

    $ sudo systemctl enable mailhog
    

Congratulations! MailHog is now installed and ready to use on your Fedora CoreOS Latest instance.