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

[leokhoa]

Here's how:

1. Download MailHog:
   https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_windows_amd64.exe
2. Move it to `C:\laragon\usr\bin\MailHog.exe
3. 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.

0_1521830434741_development-mail.zip

[Stagger Lee]

Is there any way to make saving mails persistent ? Some other GPL script for collecting localhost mails ? Some other solution.

It would help a lot by tweaking newsletters, and all possible HTML format mails, contact forms. As it is now not very useful. Restart Laragon and mails are gone.

[blackfyre]

@Stagger-Lee Mailhog isn't ment to be persistent in any way. If you want persistence, I suggest you try mailtrap.io for that.

But I cannot imagine why would anyone want persistence for local email development... I've been doing it for years and I'm happy to see them go away at the end of the day...

[KoolPal]

@Stagger-Lee said in [Tutorial] How to add MailHog to Laragon and make it autorun using Procfile:

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.

0_1521830434741_development-mail.zip

Hi,can you please re-upload? When I click on the link it says "Not Found". Thanks

[Stagger Lee]

@KoolPal said in [Tutorial] How to add MailHog to Laragon and make it autorun using Procfile:

Hi,can you please re-upload? When I click on the link it says "Not Found". Thanks

Will do it tonight. Sitting now on notebook without servers.

[Stagger Lee]

Here it is.

0_1534692492590_development-mail.zip

[KoolPal]

Sorry. Cannot download. Can you paste the code here instead?

[leokhoa]

@KoolPal: Sorry - it's the forum's issue. I've fixed it.

[KoolPal]

@leokhoa Not sure if @Stagger-Lee needs to re-upload the file again. I still get "not found" when I click the older links above.