How to make a stub for mail on localhost?

Question

PHP

Created mail.php file

<?php
$str = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' )."\r\n";
$str .= file_get_contents( 'php://stdin' )."\r\n\r\n";
file_put_contents( __DIR__.'/mail_log.txt', $str, FILE_APPEND );
?>

In php.ini, in the sendmail_path parameter, I specified the path to mail.php, restarted Apache, but nothing works. An application script that successfully sends mail on a third-party server now hangs for a long time on a local server.
If mail.php is called directly from the browser, then everything works out, writes an empty entry with a timestamp to the log file.
UPD.
Found a solution.
sendmail_path = "path_to_php.exe path_to_mail.php"
But why do you need to do this? Is this an indication to process mail.php via php.exe?

Answer 1

I use Mailslurper for such purposes. everything is beautiful and cool

Answer 2

Good morning.
I did not find a link to the blog where I found this solution, but here is the script and some description for you.
I use ubuntu, but I think that if you have windows, you can still run this stub. Perhaps tweaking the script a bit.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
/* заглушка mail() */
$input = file_get_contents('php://stdin');
preg_match('|^To: (.*)|', $input, $matches);
//$t = tempnam("/home/username/localhost/email", $matches[1]);
//
// более понятно название файла + возможность открывать в почтовой программе
$t = "/home/username/localhost/email/" . $matches[1] . '_' . time() . '.eml';

chmod($t, 0644);
file_put_contents($t, $input);
?>

I placed this file in the home directory of the system, in a hidden directory. Set permissions to execute the file as a program.
In /etc/php5/cli/php.ini and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini set the path to the file.
In the localhost directory, I created the email directory with access rights 0777
That's it, now all letters are added to this directory and opened by the mail client.