Send all emails to the same email address (for test purposes)

Self-Hosted | v5
#1

Hi,

is there an option to send all emails to the same address. Or use the “from” address as the “to” address? This is for testing purposes only. I couldn’t find anything in the UI but maybe there is a file that I can change.

I want to migrate another billing software to InvoiceNinja and want to test things to make sure, everything is working as planned. But I don’t want to send emails to customers during this test phase.

Maybe there is a quick solution for this.

Many thanks in advance!
Gijs

#2

Hi,

One option may be to set the mail driver to log, this will write all emails to the log file rather than send them.

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#3

Hi @hillel

that would be a perfect solution. I don’t see this option in the settings. I tried to set

MAIL_MAILER=log

in the env file and recreated the docker container. But then the email was still received. Do I need to run some php artisan command?

Thanks a lot
Gijs

#4

It may help to load /update?secret= to update the cached config.

Note: you can check which driver is being used in the health check in the app.

#5

Hmm, unfortunately /update?secret=xxxxx did not change anything.

The health check still says smtp and emails are still sent. I also tried

docker exec -it [container] php artisan optimize

but that didn’t work either :frowning:

Any other idea?

#6

@david can you please advise?

#7

@ecomsilio

Assuming you are using our standard docker-compose file you should only need to edit the env file in the root of the dockerfiles directory

I just tested this by taking down the container, changing the MAIL_MAILER to log and then bringing up the container again.

Also just ensure your env doesn’t have the MAIL_MAILER in there twice a bit further down.

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#8

Sorry, this is awkward. It all works as long as I make the change to the correct env File :man_facepalming: