Laravel mail to a local inbox, three .env lines

1. Start Buggregator

Run the container. Port 8000 is the web UI, port 1025 is the SMTP server.

docker run --pull always \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 \
  -p 127.0.0.1:1025:1025 \
  -p 127.0.0.1:9912:9912 \
  -p 127.0.0.1:9913:9913 \
  ghcr.io/buggregator/server:latest

2. Change three lines in .env

Point Laravel's SMTP mailer at Buggregator. No username or password is needed.

# .env
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=1025

3. Use the service name in Docker Compose

If your Laravel app and Buggregator run in the same Compose stack, use the service name as the host.

# SMTP — email capture
MAIL_HOST=buggregator
MAIL_PORT=1025

4. Send an email and open it

Trigger any email: a registration confirmation, a password reset, a notification. Open http://127.0.0.1:8000. You see the rendered HTML with a Desktop / Tablet / Mobile width switcher, the plain text version, the addresses, the attachments and the raw MIME source.

Buggregator includes a fake SMTP server on port 1025. Laravel's SMTP mailer delivers to it like to any mail server, and Buggregator stores the email and shows it in the UI instead of sending it on. Your mail code does not change, only the address in .env.