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agouticreative/laravel-mailcatcher
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A service provider for Alexandre Salome's PHP Mailcatcher SDK

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laravel-mailcatcher
===================

[](#laravel-mailcatcher)

A Laravel service provider that returns the data on a Mailcatcher instance as an Eloquent collection of models.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by [Mailcatcher SDK for PHP](https://github.com/alexandresalome/mailcatcher)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

1. install [Mailcatcher](https://mailcatcher.me/).
2. from the root of your project, run this command: `composer install https://github.com/agouticreative/laravel-mailcatcher`
3. Add `Agouti\LaravelMailcatcher\ServiceProvider::class` to the `providers` array in **config/app.php**
4. Add `'Mailcatcher' => Agouti\LaravelMailcatcher\Facade::class` to the `aliases` array in **config/app.php**
5. from the root of your project run this command: `php artisan vendor:publish`
6. If your Mailcatcher instance is reached at a port and location combination different from ** then change the *url* propery in **config/mailcatcher.php** to reflect the correct location

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Use `Mailcatcher::search()` to search the Mailcatcher instance for messages. Search takes an array of filtering arguments in the manner of the aforementioned Mailcatcher PHP SDK. Refer to that repo's instructions to learn more. A simple `Mailcatcher::search()` will return *all* messages on Mailcatcher.

The messages' models will have these attributes:

- id (integer)
- sender (array with *name* and *email* keys)
- recipients (array of arrays with *name* and *email* keys)
- subject (string)
- content (string)
- url (a URL for viewing the content of the message, like . This is particuarly useful for PHPUnit or Selenium testing.)

*Attachments are not yet supported.*

The original message object from the SDK is available as the *messageObject* property on the message model ($collection\[0\]->messageObject, for example)

Both the model and the collection have a *delete* method that will delete messages on Mailcatcher. **delete on the collection completely clears out mailcatcher! be careful!**

### This is an alpha release

[](#this-is-an-alpha-release)

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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