PHP Configuration hints

[rfay]

I had loads of trouble trying to get MailHog (with or without mhsendmail) to work with php-fpm (MacOS, homebrew, php5.6, mailhog 0.2)

I finally got it going with this in php.ini:

sendmail_path = "/usr/local/bin/mailhog sendmail [email protected]"

I can do a PR to add that simple recipe to the docs if you'll direct me where to put it.

(I do see that hint in mailhog/mhsendmail#3 (comment), which is where I got it, but that was closed.)

[ian-kent]

mailhog/mhsendmail#3 should have fixed it, assuming you have a To: header in the message

It could be worth adding some documentation to mention it - PHP config is mentioned in the mhsendmail readme, but currently without the e-mail address in the path

[rfay]

Hmm, maybe a new release for mhsendmail is the key fix?

Note that I couldn't get mailhog 0.2.0 to work without the gratuitous [email protected], but it works fine with it.

[ian-kent]

It might be that (really need to fix #71!), but if you've tried the MailHog sendmail one then it should use the latest mhsendmail for whichever version of MailHog you have installed

I'll do a new release after I've got through some open issues, hopefully that'll fix it!

[rfay]

OK, thanks for your work on this. MailHog is awesome. A real step forward in my dev workflow. Love the "delete all".

[ian-kent]

Thanks @rfay, and no problem, glad its useful 😄

[SlayerBirden]

A tip to anyone wondering how to use Mailhog if it's running on a separate instance (not the php server) - for example on a separate docker container.

All you need to do is modify the sendmail_path on php server to include -S option:

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -S mail:1025 -t

Where "mail" is the alias of my container running Mailhog.

[ian-kent]

👍 thanks for the info, I've added the info to the MailHog README including a php.ini example

[Feyisayo]

I would like to add that using sendmail in debian docker containers seem to have issues. A good replacement is ssmtp.

Install using apt install ssmtp

ssmtp can be configured to use mailhog by editing /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf like so:

[email protected]
# replace mailhog with the name of the mailhog service
mailhub=mailhog:1025
hostname=yourserver.example.com
FromLineOverride=YES

PHP can then be configured in php.ini like so:
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/ssmtp -t

Some more details on ssmtp can be found here

This worked for me. I hope someone finds it useful