[Tutorial] How to add MailHog to Laragon and make it autorun using Procfile

leokhoa

Here's how:

Download MailHog:
https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_windows_amd64.exe
Move it to `C:\laragon\usr\bin\MailHog.exe
Open Laragon's Procfile (Menu > Laragon > Procfile) and add these lines:

MailHog: MailHog.exe autorun
MailHog Admin: http://localhost:8025 autorun

That's all. I hope you enjoyed yourself

leokhoa

1 liner (using Menu > Laragon > Terminal):

cd %LARAGON_ROOT%\usr & curl -L https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_windows_amd64.exe > bin\MailHog.exe & echo MailHog: MailHog.exe autorun >> Procfile & echo MailHog Admin: http://localhost:8025 autorun >> Procfile

Stagger Lee

Thank you. I opened URL and it is working.
Just to find out how to connect it with Laragon (PHP) PHPMailer function.
Sent few messages via contact forms on different websites and Inbox still shows (0).

blackfyre

@Stagger-Lee
MailHog will act as a local smtp server, so when you create the smtp connection with PHPMailer, you need to give it the following settings:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=1025
MAIL_USERNAME=testuser
MAIL_PASSWORD=testpwd

Ports can change depending on the config you set up MailHog with. It's also possible that it won't require any authentication... depends on the use case.

Stagger Lee

Thank you @blackfyre. Lost some time because of overflow of options for WordPress code. Now it is OK.

Here it is a few lines plugin for WordPress. Just install it as any plugin. Or take action hook out and use in custom functions.php. Maybe better to install as a plugin. Later can be deleted. Less risk later will remain on production site and ruin mail sending.

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