Mailhog

Mailhog is an email testing tool for development — a fake SMTP server with a web UI to view captured emails.

Quickstart

# Deploy in-cluster behind Traefik ingress
make deploy-mailhog

# Or run locally via Docker
make start-mailhog

Access

Once deployed, Mailhog is available at mailhog.<LB_IP>.nip.io.

• SMTP port: 1025 (for apps to send through)
• HTTP UI: 8025 (view captured emails)

Cleanup

make destroy-mailhog

Notes

• The ingress hostname is auto-patched with the Traefik LB IP on deploy.
• Emails are stored in-memory only — restarting the pod clears all messages.