Laravel mail pretend prints nothing

Question

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

    

        E-mail: {{          


        
      

Answer 1

This is the normal behaviour of pretend in the Laravel Mailer system. It will not render your message anywhere, not even in the log, it will just log that a mail message was pretended to be sent. Look at the related source code:

/**
 * Send a Swift Message instance.
 *
 * @param  Swift_Message  $message
 * @return void
 */
protected function sendSwiftMessage($message)
{
    if ( ! $this->pretending)
    {
        return $this->swift->send($message);
    }
    elseif (isset($this->logger))
    {
        $this->logMessage($message);
    }
}

/**
 * Log that a message was sent.
 *
 * @param  Swift_Message  $message
 * @return void
 */
protected function logMessage($message)
{
    $emails = implode(', ', array_keys($message->getTo()));

    $this->logger->info("Pretending to mail message to: {$emails}");
}