Mailcatcher not working in staging server

Question

I was pretty happy with mailtrap (http://mailtrap.io/) until i found out it got slow. Sometimes it doesn't send email or takes long time.

So thought of alternative and moved to mailcatcher (http://mailcatcher.me/). The issue is, it works fine in development environment but cant made it to work on staging env. Whenever I go for port 1080 to see the mail, path does not finds out.

BTW I am using mailcatcher for my rails app.

Thanks;

[Update] My mailer setting: config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :host => http://mydomain.com, :port => 1025 }

BTW when I start mailcatcher daemon process. It logs out

==> smtp://127.0.0.1:1025
==> http://127.0.0.1:1080

Not my actual host, is it the problem ?

Answer 1

Normally I would say the answer of Frederick is correct.

However for some reason for us this did not work. Mailcatcher refused to listen on the ip-address. To workaround we just proxied all the traffic through Nginx. Could also be done with another proxy. Anyways, here is our config:

server {
  listen 3020;


  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1080;
    proxy_redirect     off;
    proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  }

}

You can then access your server like this: myserver.com:3020

Seems a bit of a hack, but hope this helps.

Answer 2

By default mailcatcher only runs against the loopback interface (hence the 127.0.0.1 address), so it will only be accessible from the machine it is running on.

You can use the --ip, --smtp-ip, --http-ip options when running mailcatcher to control which ip addresses it binds to.