Set up mailhog and configure PHP sendmail to use mhsendmail on macos

install-mailhog-mhsendmail-macos.md

Mailhog and mhsendmail as PHP sendmail on macos

Useful for intercepting all PHP mails in a web interface when developing on your localhost. This uses the mhsendmail command for the PHP configuration instead of the normal sendmail command to avoid sending mails to the WWW when testing.

1. install go

2. install mhsendmail

   go get github.com/mailhog/mhsendmail
   

3. install mailhog

   sudo port selfupdate && sudo port install mailhog
   

4. test mailhog running

   sudo lsof -nP -i4TCP:8025 | grep LISTEN\n
   sudo lsof -nP -i4TCP:1025 | grep LISTEN\n
   

5. php.ini changes

   [mail function]
   SMTP =
   sendmail_from = [email protected]
   sendmail_path = "/Users/joram/go/bin/mhsendmail"
   

6. restart apache

7. test php mail

   php -r "\$from = \$to = '[email protected]'; \$x = mail(\$to, 'subject'.time(), 'Hello World', 'From: '. \$from); var_dump(\$x);"
   

8. test mailhog inbox

   http://localhost:8025