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Run MailCatcher in the background, always, on OS X
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Place me.mailcatcher.plist into ~/Library/LaunchAgents, then run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist.

If you use pow, echo 1080 > ~/.pow/mailcatcher and go to http://mailcatcher.dev, otherwise use http://localhost:1080.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>me.mailcatcher</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>sh</string>
<string>-i</string>
<string>-c</string>
<string>$SHELL --login -c "mailcatcher --foreground"</string>
</array>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
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ozzyaaron commented Feb 10, 2012

❤️

@bbenezech
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bbenezech commented Nov 5, 2013

👍

@b2un0
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b2un0 commented Feb 13, 2014

thanks

@dasgib
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dasgib commented May 13, 2014

THX!

If you use RVM you need to install Mailcatcher into a dedicated gemset (https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher#rvm) and maybe use the full path to the mailcatcher executable inside the .plist ("~/.rvm/bin/mailcatcher").

@sineld
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sineld commented Jan 27, 2015

Worked for me.
Thanks.

@junxy
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junxy commented Apr 30, 2015

👍

@nathanielvarona
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nathanielvarona commented Oct 24, 2015

Replace pow with mehserve. Websockets feature works using http://mailcatcher.dev/

Checkout https://www.npmjs.com/package/mehserve

@jeremiahsmall
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jeremiahsmall commented Jun 6, 2017

Nice. Still works in 2017

@karlhepler
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karlhepler commented Aug 4, 2017

Is there a reason why you are using the foreground flag? Will this still work without it?

@sj26
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sj26 commented Aug 22, 2018

@oldtimeguitarguy yes it needs to run in foreground or launchd will lose track of the process and assume it failed.

@yemartin
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yemartin commented Dec 5, 2018

In case that helps anyone using chruby, here is what worked for me:

https://gist.github.com/yemartin/179369661ff880df5563a1d932329ed0

(Note: using chruby-exec did not work for some reason).

@jamesfawcett
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jamesfawcett commented Jul 20, 2020

This is still working in 2020. Installed MailCatcha via Homebrew and worked straight out the box!

@niightly
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niightly commented Mar 13, 2021

Guys 2021 and still up, but if for some reason some of you guys face the Load failed: 5: Input/output error (I did on Big Sur). Here is how to solve it (pretty simple actually)

  1. Run launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist
  2. Run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist

It should get things going (at least it did for me)
Btw, I just put it here for the future Me and next generations, since this Tutorial is great it should be wasted by some random mac error.

PS: Hello there future me!

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