Mailhog - Email Testing

Based on: https://medium.com/kreuzwerker-gmbh/e2e-testing-of-emails-in-mailhog-using-cypress-72ccb722bad7

Laravel

Update the following files:

docker-compose.local.yml

Under “services” add:

  mailhog:
    image: mailhog/mailhog:latest
    ports:
      - '8025:8025'
      - '1025:1025'
    environment:
      MH_STORAGE: maildir
      MH_MAILDIR_PATH: /tmp
    volumes:
      - maildir:/tmp
    command: -invite-jim=1 -jim-accept=0.50
    networks:
      - indevets_local_net

And under “volumes” add:

maildir: {}

envs/env.local

Update the Mailtrap secttings:

MAIL_HOST=mailhog
MAIL_PORT=1025
# MAIL_USERNAME=affffceaa5d321
# MAIL_PASSWORD=d9d17a0d48a800
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=

Note: There are differences here between Laravel versions. This StackOverflow helped to find the fix: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65420438/laravel-5-2-expected-response-code-220-but-got-code-500-with-message-500-un

Laravel 8 works with…

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

…but Laravel 6 needed…

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=

Cypress + Mailhog

Install Cypress-Mailhog package

yarn add --dev cypress-mailhog

cypress/support/commands.js

Add

import 'cypress-mailhog';

cypress.json

Add:

"mailHogUrl": "http://localhost:8025"

Mailhog browser GUI

http://localhost:8025