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lucasmichot/mailcatcher
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Enable Mailcatcher for Laravel 4.2

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

[](#mailcatcher)

Enable Mailcatcher for Laravel 4.2.

The purpose of this package is to allow you to use Mailcatcher server for emails sent by Laravel in pretending mode.

Requirements:

- PHP >= 5.4
- [Mailcatcher](http://mailcatcher.me)

Installing Mailcatcher
----------------------

[](#installing-mailcatcher)

All the installation documentation is available at [Mailcatcher](http://mailcatcher.me) website.

Tips: You are a [Homebrew](http://brew.sh) and don't want to manage `gem` packages ? You can easily install it with this simple command line :

```
$ brew update && brew upgrade
$ brew install brew-gem && brew gem install mailcatcher
```

Package installation
--------------------

[](#package-installation)

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's `composer.json` file to require `lucasmichot/mailcatcher`.

```
"require-dev": {
  "lucasmichot/mailcatcher": "dev-master"
}
```

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

```
$ composer update --dev
```

You can achieve these operations with this one-liner command :

```
$ composer require "lucasmichot/mailcatcher:dev-master" --dev
```

Once this operation completes, the final step is to add the service provider. Open `app/config/app.php`, and add a new item to the providers array.

```
'Lucasmichot\Mailcatcher\MailcatcherServiceProvider',
```

**Note**:

If you are using Ryan Tablada's [Package Installer](https://github.com/rtablada/package-installer), you can simply install this package, without having to update `app/config/app.php`, by typing :

```
$ php artisan package:install lucasmichot/mailcatcher
```

TODO
----

[](#todo)

- Finish documentation

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.7% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8476d69514125fdd39d5d1caa9da3bff9c7a6345702b0dfd8d185c84adf924b9?d=identicon)[lucasmichot](/maintainers/lucasmichot)

---

Top Contributors

[![lucasmichot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/513603?v=4)](https://github.com/lucasmichot "lucasmichot (11 commits)")[![notFloran](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/523981?v=4)](https://github.com/notFloran "notFloran (1 commits)")

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