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Environment Variables for Development
Complete guide to environment variables for Chatwoot development and testing
Environment Variables for Development
This guide covers environment variables specifically for development and testing environments. For production environment variables, see the
Self-hosted Environment Variables
guide.
Use letter opener instead of mailhog/SMTP
Set the following variable to open emails in letter opener instead of SMTP
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LETTER_OPENER
=
true
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