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Aubrey Portwood
Aubrey Portwood

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How I configured (Laravel) Valet + PHP to send ALL email to Mailhog on Mac w/ Homebrew

#tutorial #php #laravel #mailhog

I needed to configure PHP + Valet to send any and all emails to Mailhog. This is how I configured my system:

Basically:

brew install mailhog
brew services start mailhog
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Then in /opt/homebrew/etc/php/<VERSION>/conf.d/z-php.ini Add:

sendmail_path=/opt/homebrew/bin/mailhog sendmail
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Then:

brew services restart php
valet restart
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...and if you are using valet isolate in a specific site, also:

valet isolate php@<VERSION>
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This should tell that version of PHP to send ANY email via /opt/homebrew/bin/mailhog sendmail which should end up in the Mailhog UI at http://127.0.0.1:8025.

You can also:

valet proxy mailhog.test http://127.0.0.1:8025
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And use mailhog.test to access Mailhog.

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