Receive emails with Laravel Mail Catcher

Aug 31, 2020 PHP Beginner Laravel mailcatcher Laravel7

Purpose

• Summarize the method to receive with MailCatcher sent from Laravel.

Implementation environment

• Hardware environment

• Software environment

#Prerequisites

• The Laravel environment is constructed by the following method or a similar method. -Construct environment of Mac Laravel

#Prerequisite information

• I built the Laravel environment directly on the Mac and implemented it.
• The environment of Laravel was implemented by the following method. Create and execute Laravel application in the following environment. -Construct environment of Mac Laravel
• The email sending process from the Laravel application is implemented by the following method. -Add processing to confirm email address when Laravel 7 user authentication

After reading

• MailCatcher can receive emails sent from Laravel.

Overview

1. Installing and starting MailCatcher
2. Description of .env file
3. Confirm

#Details

1. Installing and starting MailCatcher

   1. Execute the following command to install MailCatcher.

      $ sudo gem install mailcatcher
      

   2. Execute the following command to start MailCatcher.

      $ mailcatcher
      

   3. Access the following. -http://127.0.0.1:1080

   4. Confirm that the following page is displayed.

      

2. Description of .env file

   1. Modify the Mail setting part of the .env file as follows.

      MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
      MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
      MAIL_PORT=1025
      MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
      [email protected]
      MAIL_FROM_NAME=admin
      MAIL_USERNAME=null
      MAIL_PASSWORD=null
      MAIL_PRETEND=false
      

3. Confirm

   1. Send an email from the Laravel app.

   2. When MailCatcher is displayed on the browser as shown below and it is confirmed that the mail can be received, the work is completed.