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zbateson/php-dummy-sendmail
===========================

sendmail dummy for testing written in PHP

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zbateson/php-dummy-sendmail
===========================

[](#zbatesonphp-dummy-sendmail)

sendmail dummy for testing written in PHP

PHP based 'sendmail' dummy for writing emails to a directory for testing.

- Predictable and configurable file-naming
- Configurable output directory and file extension

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

[](#installation)

Currently, installing involves either creating the phar archive from the repo, or running it directly from the repo.

Dependencies must be downloaded and installed with composer - to do so:

```
composer install
```

> This depends on how composer is installed, if that fails please ensure composer is installed and review composer's documentation at:

To create the phar archive, after cloning, use clue/phar-composer and run phar-composer build to create php-dummy-sendmail.phar. Once created, optionally move it to /usr/local/bin or configure sendmail with php path/to/php-dummy-sendmail.phar.

```
mv php-dummy-sendmail.phar /usr/local/bin/php-sendmail
```

> clue/phar-composer will automatically set execute permissions. you may need to run this with sudo

To run directly without creating a phar archive, the main project file sendmail, is an executable file in bash and can be run with:

```
php sendmail
```

In Windows php-dummy-sendmail can be run with:

```
php sendmail

```

### Configure php.ini

[](#configure-phpini)

Change the sendmail configuration in php.ini:

```
sendmail = /usr/local/bin/php-sendmail --directory /path/to/output-dir

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

php-sendmail \[--directory\[="..."\]\] \[--timestamp\[="..."\]\] \[--increment-file\[="..."\]\] \[--input-file\[="..."\]\] \[--file-extension\[="..."\]\] \[--print\] \[to\]

Example: php-sendmail  --directory /path/to/output/dir --timestamp "Y-m-d H:i:s:u" --file-extension txt

> php-sendmail reads from STDIN by default, so the above example run on the command line would block.

### Command-line Options

[](#command-line-options)

\--directory - specifies the default directory to read/write to (useful if not the current dir)

\--timestamp - PHP date() timestamp format (with 'u' support), used to format the output file name. Defaults to 'Y-m-d H:i:s:u'

\--increment-file - Specifies a file to save an index number for auto-increment functionality. File names are numbered with this option set.

\--file-extension - Sets the file extension to use for saved files.

\--input-file - Specify an input file (useful for debugging)

\--print - Simply prints the output

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2684d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f2d1f00c58c63c29cc0fcf5972c9add3d468fb126f7191a6a5dfabc1f0af24e4?d=identicon)[zbateson](/maintainers/zbateson)

---

Top Contributors

[![zbateson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8356974?v=4)](https://github.com/zbateson "zbateson (7 commits)")

---

Tags

testingsendmailPHP mail

###  Code Quality

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