[masa331]

I use Mailcatcher for almost ten years now and never had a problem with it. Maybe is doesn't need maintenance?

[iruoy]

There's no rush to move away from MailCatcher or MailHog, but if you're not using those solutions already I see no reason to use them over the maintained options.

[diggan]

> I see no reason to use them over the maintained options

Things that don't change over a longer time period can be more comfortable sometimes. Especially things you use often and build up a sort of "muscle memory" about.

[rnewme]

You ignored first part of that sentence.

[naniwaduni]

"Not changing" has value in its own right.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Yeah, people underestimate the value of “finished” software: in an ecosystem with lots of stable dependencies, there’s very little reason for useful software to change constantly.

[picohik]

Even "finished" software needs maintenance. Nothing is ever bug-free so needs fixes. And it doesn't live in a vacuum, the ecosystem evolves and continuous adjustments are needed when APIs evolve or libraries change.

In well-written software, the maintenance burden is low, but it's not zero. Without any maintenance, you can maybe run some piece of software in some closed-off container for a while, but it will keep rotting away and eventually you won't even be able to compile it anymore.

[sureIy]

Yes, you definitely don't want to risk closing up all those holes discovered in the last 10 years, lots of people might be left out of your servers.

[Widdershin]

Try add it to the Gemfile of a modern Rails project, the dependencies are very out of date and it won’t install.

[snackernews]

Docs say

> Please don't put mailcatcher into your Gemfile. It will conflict with your applications gems at some point.

[NewJazz]

Commenter was just making the fair point that the dependencies are out of date.

Maintenance doesn't always mean UI redesigns or non-compatible config changes. Sometimes it is just fixing bugs and updating or replacing old dependencies.

[bdcravens]

I always run Mailcatcher as a standalone Docker image (I'm already using Docker Compose for development), with no issues.

[sj26]

It's not designed to go in your Gemfile

gem install mailcatcher

:-)

[gregoriol]

Same for Mailhog