stevelacey/laravel-mail-preview

Adds a 'preview' mail driver for testing emails in Laravel.

v4.1.1 2021-02-07 12:22 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.2
• illuminate/filesystem: *
• illuminate/mail: *
• illuminate/support: *

Requires (Dev)

• mockery/mockery: ^1.1
• orchestra/testbench: ^3.6
• phpunit/phpunit: ^8.5

MIT

• Mohamed Said
• Steve Lacey

• mail
• laravel
• mailcatcher
• mailtrap
• mailcatch
• mailgrab

README

This package introduces a new preview mail driver for Laravel that when selected will render the content of the sent email and save it as both .html and .eml files.

Installation

Begin by installing the package through Composer. Run the following command in your terminal:

composer require stevelacey/laravel-mail-preview

Then publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Steve\LaravelMailPreview\MailPreviewServiceProvider"

Finally, change MAIL_DRIVER to preview in your .env file:

MAIL_DRIVER=preview

How it works

Everytime an email is sent, an .html and .eml file will be generated in storage/email-previews with a name that includes the first recipient and the subject:

1457904864_jack_at_gmail_com_invoice_000234.html
1457904864_jack_at_gmail_com_invoice_000234.eml

You can open the .html file in a web browser, or open the .eml file in your default email client to have a realistic look at the final output.

Preview in a web browser

When you open the .html file in a web browser you'll be able to see how your email will look, however there might be some differences that varies from one email client to another.