# Dealing with email in development

## Sent emails

To view rendered emails "sent" in your development instance, visit
[`/rails/letter_opener`](http://localhost:3000/rails/letter_opener).

## Mailer previews

Rails provides a way to preview our mailer templates in HTML and plaintext using
dummy data.

The previews live in [`spec/mailers/previews`][previews] and can be viewed at
[`/rails/mailers`](http://localhost:3000/rails/mailers).

See the [Rails guides] for more info.

[previews]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/spec/mailers/previews
[Rails guides]: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#previewing-emails

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