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I want to test Devise’s confirmable feature in local development, so I need a way to locally send & receive emails. Got this technique from this post. I’d like to paste it here.

• Make sure you include confirmable in Model.devise call
• Make sure you add confirmable to the user migration
• Generate the devise views (ps. I found that this step is unnecessary)

$ rails generate devise:views

• Add the following config lines in /config/environments/development.rb

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'localhost:3000' }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {:address => "localhost", :port => 1025}

• To test the setup in development install the mailcatcher gem, that you will use as a SMTP server in development, catching all incoming mails and displaying them on localhost:1080

$ gem install mailcatcher

Once installed start the mailcatcher server with the command

$ mailcatcher

A toy SMTP server will be running on port 1025 catching and displaying emails on HTTP port 1080.