#MailHog example page
MailHog is an email testing tool for developers.
It gives the developer the option to intercept and inspect the emails sent by his application.
You can download the MailHog Windows client from one of the links below.
The only configurations necessary for Apache are located into the php.ini
Put the downloaded file into, for example: C:/xampp/sendmail/mailhog.exe
Then open the php.ini and change the lines like below:
- smtp_port = 1025
- sendmail_path = "C:/xampp/sendmail/mailhog.exe sendmail"
After changing the configurations in php.ini remmember to restart apache.
Then run mailhog.exe and visit http://localhost:8025/ in your browser!
Every email sent by localhost will now be redirected to MailHog and you can inspect it in http://localhost:8025/
For more information and support visit the MailhHog GitHub page.
You can test if the above is working by putting the following code into a .php file and open it in localhost (after mailhog configuration).
<?php
if(isset($_POST["mail"], $_POST["subject"], $_POST["email"], $_POST["myemail"])){
$data = array();
$boundary = md5( uniqid() . microtime() );
$from = strip_tags($_POST["myemail"]);
$to = strip_tags($_POST["email"]);
$subject = strip_tags($_POST["subject"]);
$message = $_POST["mail"];
// Plain text version of message
$body = "--$boundary" .PHP_EOL .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8".PHP_EOL .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
$body .= chunk_split( base64_encode( strip_tags($message) ) );
// HTML version of message
$body .= "--$boundary". PHP_EOL .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8". PHP_EOL .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64". PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL ;
$message ='<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>MailHog email example</title>
</head>
<body>
'.$_POST["mail"].'
</body>
</html>';
$body .= chunk_split( base64_encode( $message ) );
$body .= "--$boundary";
$headers = 'From: <'.$from.'>'.PHP_EOL;
$headers.= 'Reply-To: <'.$from.'>'.PHP_EOL;
$headers.= 'CC: '.$from.''.PHP_EOL;
$headers.= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.PHP_EOL;
$headers.= 'Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="'.$boundary.'"'.PHP_EOL;
if(mail($to, '=?utf-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $body, $headers)){
$data["success"] = true;
$data["text"] = "Mail was sent successfully.";
}else{
$data["success"] = false;
$data["text"] = "Mail was not sent.";
}
echo json_encode($data);
}else{
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>MailHog email example</title>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h2>Send an email for MailHog to Catch it.</h2>
<form onsubmit="sendmail(event)" id="myForm" action="<?=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]?>" method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="myemail">Email From</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" value="admin@example.gr" name="myemail" placeholder="Email sender" id="myemail" required />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email to</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" value="info@example.gr" name="email" placeholder="Email recipient" id="email" required />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" value="Test email" name="subject" placeholder="Subject" id="subject" required />
</div>
<div class="form-group" id="help-parent">
<label for="mail">Email Body</label>
<textarea name="mail" class="form-control" id="mail" rows="5" required><h1>Sent from localhost!</h1></textarea>
<span id="response" class="help-block"></span>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-info">Send Mail</button>
</form>
</div>
<script>
function sendmail(event){
event.preventDefault();
var mail = document.getElementById("mail").value;
var email = document.getElementById("email").value;
var myemail = document.getElementById("myemail").value;
var subject = document.getElementById("subject").value;
const toSend = {
method : 'post',
headers: {
"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
},
body : "email="+encodeURIComponent(email)+"&subject="+encodeURIComponent(subject)+"&mail="+encodeURIComponent(mail)+"&myemail="+encodeURIComponent(myemail)
};
fetch(event.target.action, toSend)
.then(function(response) {
return response.json();
})
.then(function(data) {
document.getElementById("response").innerHTML = data.text;
if(data.success){
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.add("has-success");
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.remove("has-error");
}else{
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.remove("has-success");
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.add("has-error");
}
setTimeout(function(){
document.getElementById("response").innerHTML = "";
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.remove("has-error");
document.getElementById("help-parent").classList.remove("has-success");
},3000);
}).catch(function(err){
alert("The request resulted in an error.");
console.warn(err);
});
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
<?php
}
?>