Installing MailHog — brew install mailhog Enabling: Enable the service via running the command below: brew services start mailhog # also you can stop it whenever you want using: brew services stop mailhog This tells Homebrew to setup a background service. Then MailHog is always running on your machine. As long as Homebrew is running, you won’t need to manually start anything, . Now, you can visit MailHog application under the following in a browser: