Easily test sending and receiving email locally using MailHog

A java application which I work on has a feature to send emails via the corporate SMTP server to notify certain personnel whenever an error occurs. For security reasons, only servers within a certain networks can access the SMTP server and send emails. For instance, the computer which I use to build the application does not have access to the SMTP server. When searching for an email testing tool, I stumbled upon MailHog. Within minutes, I was able to run MailHog and test sending emails without having to deploy the app to the remote servers.

Send email with attachments using MailKit for .NET core

This post is another example of setting up and using MailKit for .NET core to send an email with attachments.

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