Mailcatcher installation script for Ubuntu 16.04 (14.04 commands commented out)

setup_mailcatcher.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install dependencies
# older ubuntus
#apt-get install build-essential libsqlite3-dev ruby1.9.1-dev
# xenial
apt install build-essential libsqlite3-dev ruby-dev

# Install the gem
gem install mailcatcher --no-ri --no-rdoc

# Make it start on boot
echo "@reboot root $(which mailcatcher) --ip=0.0.0.0" >> /etc/crontab
update-rc.d cron defaults

# Make php use it to send mail
# older ubuntus
#echo "sendmail_path = /usr/bin/env $(which catchmail) -f 'www-data@localhost'" >> /etc/php5/mods-available/mailcatcher.ini
# xenial
echo "sendmail_path = /usr/bin/env $(which catchmail) -f 'www-data@localhost'" >> /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/mailcatcher.ini

# Notify php mod manager (5.5+)
# older ubuntus
#php5enmod mailcatcher
# xenial
phpenmod mailcatcher

# Start it now
/usr/bin/env $(which mailcatcher) --ip=0.0.0.0

Thanks a bunch, you just saved me a lot of time :-)

Just tried this. Couple of hints for people struggling:

• You'll need to restart Apache after enabling any PHP modules (eg. after phpenmod mailcatcher). Use sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart for this.
• The sendmail_path line in the mailcatcher.ini didn't work for me. PHP was reporting the sendmail_path to be set as /usr/bin/env $(which catchmail rather than the full correct string. This worked instead: sendmail_path = /usr/bin/env catchmail -f www-data@localhost
• Piping the echo statements into the files didn't work (permissions issues). I had to do that manually with sudo.

Make sure you switch to the root user to perform these commands

sudo su root

Great, working properly. Thanks.

I confirm best you switch to root user.
In case mailcatcher gem install gets stuck at ri documentation - gem install mailcatcher --no-ri --no-rdoc solved the issue for me.

Works like a charm, thanks!

Thanks a lot!!

@andreasneuber great tip, thanks!

thank you :)

Thanks.