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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ There are two configurations to deploy OSEM with Docker: *evaluation mode* and *
 
 If you want to evaluate OSEM to see if it fits your needs, the default configuration in `docker-compose.env` will work perfectly fine for you.
 For convenience reasons, `docker-compose.yml` already contains a [MailHog](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) service configuration. MailHog
-is going to catch every email sent by OSEM and displays them on a special web service. Thus, it eliminitates the need to set up an SMTP server just to try out OSEM.
+is going to catch every email sent by OSEM and displays them on a special web service. Thus, it eliminates the need to set up an SMTP server just to try out OSEM.
 Just point your browser to http://localhost:8025 to get access to registration confirmation links etc.
 
 Run `docker-compose up --build` to start the services. On first run, it will take a few minutes to initialize the database. Thus, wait a few minutes before you open up