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floriansemm/mailcatcher
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Debugging app for PHP sendmail

V1.0(12y ago)761[2 issues](https://github.com/floriansemm/mailcatcher/issues)HTML

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Mailcatcher
===========

[](#mailcatcher)

Email testing is always complicated:

- your local enviromnent hasn't a configured SMTP server
- the global mail server is damn slow
- your spam filter impremeable configured

This app should solve a couple of your problems:

- easy setup
- fancy shiny GUI

Mailcatcher hooks into the `mail` function, it parsed the mail and persist all important imformations in a sqlite-db.

Mailcatcher is written in PHP with Silex and Doctrine2.

Quick-Installation (PHP5.4 required)
====================================

[](#quick-installation-php54-required)

- clone the project
- make `app/client.php` executable
- uncomment the `sendmail_path` and add the mailcatcher script

```
sendmail_path = /path/to/mailcatcher/app/client.php

```

- make `bin/start_server` executable and execute `./bin/start_server`

After this you can reach Mailcatcher under

Installation with PHP5.3
========================

[](#installation-with-php53)

Follow the steps 1-3 from above. Then you have to create a vhost in your webserver configuration. The document-root must point on `web`.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance14

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4386d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/76fa61ad37e54ccea2f790bedc89aa1803605fcde299fe79629aa0d0b569bae1?d=identicon)[floriansemm](/maintainers/floriansemm)

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Top Contributors

[![floriansemm](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1059500?v=4)](https://github.com/floriansemm "floriansemm (2 commits)")[![dnoegel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1114384?v=4)](https://github.com/dnoegel "dnoegel (1 commits)")

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