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Install Mailcatcher on OSX
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Install MailCatcher (https://rubygems.org/gems/mailcatcher/versions/0.5.12)

brew install ruby
sudo gem install mailcatcher

Then set it a daemon:

 curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sj26/1638617/raw/67505ad7c9191298abcd64ccdcd0cdcf767dccac/me.mailcatcher.plist >>~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist

then run

 launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist
 launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist

To setup PHP: edit php.ini (on OSX brew, /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d/mailcatcher.ini and paste the following configuration:

echo "sendmail_path = /usr/bin/env catchmail -f catcher@mailcatcher.me" >> /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/conf.d/mailcatcher.ini && brew services restart php71

put any email you want instead of catcher@mailcatcher.me

If you got a `require': cannot load such file -- i18n/core_ext/string/interpolate (LoadError) exception:

sudo gem uninstall i18n
sudo gem install i18n -v 0.6.11
sudo gem install interpolate

(see sj26/mailcatcher#155)

Visit the mailcatcher backend : http://localhost:1080

To test it:

php -r "mail('john.doed@test.fr', 'test', 'test');"
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