spatie/laravel-mail-preview

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Laravel package that adds a 'preview' mail transport which stores sent emails locally and shows an overlay link to preview them. It is designed for testing emails in local, non-production environments.

Use cases

• preview emails sent from a Laravel app locally
• test email sending without a real SMTP server
• view recently sent emails in the browser via an overlay
• debug email content during local development
• avoid sending real emails in dev and staging environments

When to choose

• you develop Laravel apps that send email and want quick local previews
• you want a lightweight alternative to tools like Mailtrap or MailHog
• you need clickable links to the last sent emails while testing

When to avoid

• you need to capture emails in production or from non-Laravel apps
• you require a full fake SMTP server for integration tests across services
• your project is not built on Laravel

Facets

library · maturity active

email testing middleware web-development developer-tools testing email php laravel-package mail-driver mail-preview local-development spatie laravel

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