Laravel unit testing emails

Question

My system sends a couple of important emails. What is the best way to unit test that?

I see you can put it in pretend mode and it goes in the log. Is there something t

Answer 1

If you just don't want the e-mails be really send, you can turn off them using the "Mail::pretend(true)"

class TestCase extends Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase {
    private function prepareForTests() {
      // e-mail will look like will be send but it is just pretending
      Mail::pretend(true);
      // if you want to test the routes
      Route::enableFilters();
    }
}

class MyTest extends TestCase {
    public function testEmail() {
      // be happy
    }
}