Yii2 mail catcher [duplicate] - yii2

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During the development and testing, I want the Yii2 mailer (swiftmailer) not to send emails to actual addresses, but replace it with developers` emails. Is there any setting in config to do it?

Answer 1

Just set the useFileTransport to true in component configuration for the development environment and all emails will not be sent but will be saved as files so you can easily test everything.

Answer 2

You should set configs for prod and dev environment.
Path for dev config (if you have advanced application template): yourProject/environments/dev/common/config/main-local.php and for prod: yourProject/environments/prod/common/config/main-local.php.
You may use EmailTarget class for logs.
Example of config for dev environment to reach the clue:
return [
'bootstrap' => ['log'],
'components' => [
...
'mailer' => [
'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
'viewPath' => '#common/mail',
'useFileTransport' => true,//set this property to false to send mails to real email addresses
//comment the following array to send mail using php's mail function
],
'log' => [
'targets' =>
[
[
'class' => 'yii\log\EmailTarget',
'levels' => ['error'],
'except' => ['yii\web\HttpException:404'],
'message' => [
'to' => ['example#mail.ru'],
'from' => ['yourproject#mail.ru'],
'subject' => ' Errors ',
]
],
],
],
],
];
And similarly for prod environment but with different emails.
If you don't want to use EmailTarget class you may just set your emails for dev in params config here: yourProject/environments/dev/common/config/params-local.php.
And path for prod: yourProject/environments/prod/common/config/params-local.php
Params config example:
return [
'sendToEmails' => ['email1#mail.ru', 'email2#mail.ru']
];
And then you may use the variable in your code this way: Yii::$app->params['sendToEmails'] to get the array of emails to send messages to.
Don't forget to do php init command in your project after compliting your configs.
You may see the detailed docs about environments here.