Inspired by the Ruby based http://mailcatcher.me project, I wanted something more light weight and written in PHP.

This is the basic start of that project.

Use this tool as a simple replacement for sendmail when testing local PHP scripts that need to send mail.

Just edit your php.ini and point your sendmail_path to bin/smtpcatcher, eg;

sendmail_path = /path/to/bin/smtpcatcher

You could also edit this config option via a local .htaccess

php_value sendmail_path "/path/to/bin/smtpcatcher"

Viewing sent email is easy, issue:

./path/to/bin/smtpcatcher -s

Then visit http://localhost:8100 in your browser.

To check that smtpcatcher is working as expected and catching emails you can use it to send test emails:

./path/to/bin/smtpcatcher -t [email protected] "some test" "this is a test email"