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[Mail & Notifications](/categories/mail) 4. / 5. rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox ActiveLibrary[Mail & Notifications](/categories/mail) rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox ================================ Self-hosted email testing driver & dashboard for Laravel β€” capture and preview outgoing emails on staging without sending real mail. v1.0.0(1mo ago)2041MITBladePHP >=8.1 Since May 31Pushed 1mo agoCompare [ Source](https://github.com/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox)[ RSS](/packages/rnsharma93-laravel-email-sandbox/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 1w ago READMEChangelogDependencies (4)Versions (2)Used By (0) Laravel Email Sandbox ===================== [](#laravel-email-sandbox) A beautiful, self-hosted email testing driver & dashboard for Laravel β€” ideal for staging environments. [![Latest Version on Packagist](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/11321772287b6ea7c0e197be4908991717da8f147ae8a9b350f11b1ace3809ef/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f726e736861726d6139332f6c61726176656c2d656d61696c2d73616e64626f782e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox) [![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7ed7620fa019af155ac24c9895cea596f5fe4ff0e229e93d172dfe779051bb9d/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f726e736861726d6139332f6c61726176656c2d656d61696c2d73616e64626f782e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox) [![PHP Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c638d688ebd207063d2eca84e65b63b5c168871b6ca58ffb6546c65b2cd45f07/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f7068702d762f726e736861726d6139332f6c61726176656c2d656d61696c2d73616e64626f782e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox) [![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2903317596c979638a0e6417841cc3fd77d241b643a119da2becfea827773fad/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f6c2f726e736861726d6139332f6c61726176656c2d656d61696c2d73616e64626f782e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) --- Laravel Email Sandbox allows you to easily intercept, capture, and preview outgoing emails inside your application without sending real emails to your users. It comes with a stunning, highly responsive dashboard deeply inspired by Mailpitβ€”built natively for Laravel with zero NPM dependencies. Instead of paying for a hosted inbox (like Mailtrap) or installing extra software (like Mailpit) on your staging server, this package captures every outgoing email straight into your own database and renders it in a built-in dashboard. πŸ“‹ Requirements -------------- [](#-requirements) - PHP `8.1` or higher - Laravel `10.x`, `11.x`, or `12.x` πŸ“‘ Table of Contents ------------------- [](#-table-of-contents) - [Key Features](#-key-features) - [Screenshots](#-screenshots) - [Installation](#-installation) - [Usage](#-usage) - [Access Control & Security](#-access-control--security) - [Configuration](#-configuration) - [Developed By](#-developed-by) - [License & Open Source](#-license--open-source) ✨ Key Features -------------- [](#-key-features) - **Mailpit-Inspired Interface:** Beautiful, responsive UI built with Tailwind CSS & Alpine.js (via CDN, no build step required). - **Comprehensive Email Previews:** Preview emails in **HTML**, **Text**, and **HTML Source** formats. - **Responsive Previews:** Interactive device toggles (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile) to test your email's responsiveness instantly. - **Raw `.eml` Snapshotting:** Captures and stores the exact raw network string (Multipart MIME) for low-level debugging. - **Advanced Filtering:** Instantly search your inbox by Subject, Body, Sender, Recipient, or Date Ranges. - **Detailed Headers:** View completely parsed `Message-ID`, `Date`, `Mime-Version`, and all exact headers just like they were sent. - **Attachment Support:** Safely capture, list, and download all email attachments natively. - **Mass Deletion:** Keep your database clean with "Delete All" functionality. - **Secure by Default:** Uses Laravel auth & Gates to ensure only authorized admins can access the dashboard outside of `local`. --- πŸ“Έ Screenshots ------------- [](#-screenshots) **Inbox** [![Email Sandbox inbox](docs/inbox.png)](docs/inbox.png) **Email Preview (HTML / Text / Headers / Raw)** [![Email preview with HTML, text, headers and raw views](docs/email-preview.png)](docs/email-preview.png) --- πŸš€ Installation -------------- [](#-installation) Require the package via Composer: ``` composer require rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox ``` Publish the configuration file (optional β€” sensible defaults are used otherwise): ``` php artisan vendor:publish --tag="email-sandbox-config" ``` The package migrations are loaded automatically. Run them to create the `email_messages` table: ``` php artisan migrate ``` πŸ“¨ Usage ------- [](#-usage) To start capturing outgoing emails, open your `.env` file and change your mail transport driver to `email-sandbox`: ``` MAIL_MAILER=email-sandbox ``` Now, any email sent by Laravel will be intercepted and stored in your database & local storage instead of actually being delivered. You can view all captured emails by navigating to: πŸ‘‰ **`http://your-app.test/email-sandbox`** Warning This driver **never delivers real email**. Use it on `local` and `staging` only. If you set `MAIL_MAILER=email-sandbox` in production, your real outgoing emails will be silently captured instead of sent to your users. ### Capturing only some emails [](#capturing-only-some-emails) If you'd rather keep your default mailer untouched and only route specific messages to the sandbox, send them through the `email-sandbox` mailer explicitly: ``` Mail::mailer('email-sandbox')->to($user)->send(new OrderShipped($order)); ``` --- πŸ” Access Control & Security ------------------------------- [](#-access-control--security) By default, the Email Sandbox UI is fully accessible in the `local` environment. However, if you deploy this to `production`, `staging`, or `testing` environments, the route is completely locked down by default. To authorize specific users to view the dashboard in non-local environments, you must define the `accessEmailSandbox` Gate in your application's `App\Providers\AppServiceProvider`: ``` use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate; public function boot(): void { Gate::define('accessEmailSandbox', function ($user) { // Return true if the user is an admin or authorized to view intercepted emails return in_array($user->email, [ 'admin@yourdomain.com', ]); }); } ``` --- 🧰 Configuration --------------- [](#-configuration) After publishing the config file, you can adjust the following options in `config/email-sandbox.php`: ``` // config/email-sandbox.php return [ // The URL prefix where the dashboard is served, e.g. /email-sandbox 'route_prefix' => 'email-sandbox', // Where raw .eml snapshots and attachments are stored on disk 'storage_path' => storage_path('app/email-sandbox'), ]; ``` OptionDefaultDescription`route_prefix``email-sandbox`URL prefix for the dashboard routes.`storage_path``storage/app/email-sandbox`Disk location for raw `.eml` snapshots and email attachments.πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Developed By ---------------- [](#‍-developed-by) **Ram Sharma** - GitHub: [@rnsharma93](https://github.com/rnsharma93) - Email: If you find this package helpful in your day-to-day development and testing workflow, please consider starring the repository on GitHub! πŸ“œ License & Open Source --------------------------- [](#-license--open-source) The Laravel Email Sandbox package is open-source software licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). You are completely free to use, modify, and distribute this package in both personal and commercial projects. Contributions, issues, and feature requests are always welcome! Feel free to check the [issues page](https://github.com/rnsharma93/laravel-email-sandbox/issues) if you want to contribute. ### Health Score 40 β€” FairBetter than 86% of packages Maintenance89 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity13 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity42 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% of commits β€” single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** β€” Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** β€” Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** β€” Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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