Laravel mail pretend prints nothing

Question

I set \'pretend\' => true, in the mail.php, created this new.php view:

    

        E-mail: {{          


        
      

Answer 1

If you set 'pretend' => true in app/config/mail.php then no mail is ever sent, you get just a message in the log, like this:

[2014-07-17 14:15:07] production.INFO:
    Pretending to mail message to: foo@example.com [] []

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However, if you leave 'pretend' => false and instead use the log driver ('driver' => 'log', available since Laravel 4.2), then instead of sending the mail, you'll get the whole mail content written into the log:

[2014-07-17 14:15:14] production.DEBUG:
    Message-ID: 

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:15:15 +0000

Subject: Welcome!
From: Ahmad 
To: John Smith 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


    Order confirmed!

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