How I configured (Laravel) Valet + PHP to send ALL email to Mailhog on Mac w/ Homebrew

I needed to configure PHP + Valet to send any and all emails to Mailhog. This is how I configured my system:

Basically:

brew install mailhog
brew services start mailhog

Then in /opt/homebrew/etc/php/<VERSION>/conf.d/z-php.ini Add:

sendmail_path=/opt/homebrew/bin/mailhog sendmail

Then:

brew services restart php
valet restart

...and if you are using valet isolate in a specific site, also:

valet isolate php@<VERSION>

This should tell that version of PHP to send ANY email via /opt/homebrew/bin/mailhog sendmail which should end up in the Mailhog UI at http://127.0.0.1:8025.

You can also:

valet proxy mailhog.test http://127.0.0.1:8025

And use mailhog.test to access Mailhog.

Code

• My php.ini override file
• How I configure multiple versions of PHP to use my php.ini override file

Comments

[Leslie]

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