Alternative, opinionated helpers for testing emails sent with symfony/mailer
. This package is
an alternative to the FrameworkBundle's MailerAssertionsTrait
.
- Install the library:
composer require --dev zenstruck/mailer-test
- If not added automatically by symfony/flex, enable
ZenstruckMailerTestBundle
in yourtest
environment
You can interact with the mailer in your tests by using the InteractsWithMailer
trait in
your KernelTestCase
/WebTestCase
tests:
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\KernelTestCase;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\InteractsWithMailer;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail;
class MyTest extends KernelTestCase // or WebTestCase
{
use InteractsWithMailer;
public function test_something(): void
{
// ...some code that sends emails...
$this->mailer()->assertNoEmailSent();
$this->mailer()->assertSentEmailCount(5);
$this->mailer()->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', 'the subject');
// For more advanced assertions, use a callback for the subject.
// Note the \Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail argument. This is a decorator
// around \Symfony\Component\Mime\Email with some extra assertions.
$this->mailer()->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', function(TestEmail $email) {
$email
->assertSubject('Email Subject')
->assertSubjectContains('Subject')
->assertFrom('[email protected]')
->assertReplyTo('[email protected]')
->assertCc('[email protected]')
->assertCc('[email protected]')
->assertBcc('[email protected]')
->assertTextContains('some text')
->assertHtmlContains('some text')
->assertContains('some text') // asserts text and html both contain a value
->assertHasFile('file.txt', 'text/plain', 'Hello there!')
// tag/meta data assertions (https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html#adding-tags-and-metadata-to-emails)
->assertHasTag('password-reset')
->assertHasMetadata('Color')
->assertHasMetadata('Color', 'blue')
;
// Any \Symfony\Component\Mime\Email methods can be used
$this->assertSame('value', $email->getHeaders()->get('X-SOME-HEADER')->getBodyAsString());
});
// reset collected emails
$this->mailer()->reset();
}
}
NOTE: Emails are persisted between kernel reboots within each test. You can reset the
collected emails with $this->mailer()->reset()
.
You can access all the sent emails and filter down to just the ones you want to make assertions on. Most methods are fluent.
use Symfony\Component\Mime\Email;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\SentEmails;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail;
/** @var SentEmails $sentEmails */
$sentEmails = $this->mailer()->sentEmails();
$sentEmails->all(); // TestEmail[]
$sentEmails->raw(); // Email[]
$sentEmails->first(); // First TestEmail in collection or fail if none
$sentEmails->last(); // Last TestEmail in collection or fail
$sentEmails->count(); // # of emails in collection
$sentEmails->dump(); // dump() the collection
$sentEmails->dd(); // dd() the collection
$sentEmails->each(function(TestEmail $email) {
// do something with each email in collection
});
$sentEmails->each(function(Email $email) {
// can typehint as Email
});
// iterate over collection
foreach ($sentEmails as $email) {
/** @var TestEmail $email */
}
// assertions
$sentEmails->assertNone();
$sentEmails->assertCount(5);
// fails if collection is empty
$sentEmails->ensureSome();
$sentEmails->ensureSome('custom failure message');
// filters - returns new instance of SentEmails
$sentEmails->whereSubject('some subject'); // emails with subject "some subject"
$sentEmails->whereSubjectContains('subject'); // emails where subject contains "subject"
$sentEmails->whereFrom('[email protected]'); // emails sent from "[email protected]"
$sentEmails->whereTo('[email protected]'); // emails sent to "[email protected]"
$sentEmails->whereCc('[email protected]'); // emails cc'd to "[email protected]"
$sentEmails->whereBcc('[email protected]'); // emails bcc'd to "[email protected]"
$sentEmails->whereReplyTo('[email protected]'); // emails with "[email protected]" as a reply-to
$sentEmails->whereTag('password-reset'); // emails with "password-reset" tag (https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html#adding-tags-and-metadata-to-emails)
// custom filter
$sentEmails->where(function(TestEmail $email): bool {
return 'password-reset' === $email->tag() && 'Some subject' === $email->getSubject();
});
// combine filters
$sentEmails
->whereTag('password-reset')
->assertCount(2)
->each(function(TestEmail $email) {
$email->assertSubjectContains('Password Reset');
})
->whereTo('[email protected]')
->assertCount(1)
The TestEmail
class shown above is a decorator for \Symfony\Component\Mime\Email
with some assertions. You can extend this to add your own assertions:
namespace App\Tests;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Assert;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail;
class AppTestEmail extends TestEmail
{
public function assertHasPostmarkTag(string $expected): self
{
Assert::assertTrue($this->getHeaders()->has('X-PM-Tag'));
Assert::assertSame($expected, $this->getHeaders()->get('X-PM-Tag')->getBodyAsString());
return $this;
}
}
Then, use in your tests:
use App\Tests\AppTestEmail;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\KernelTestCase;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\InteractsWithMailer;
class MyTest extends KernelTestCase // or WebTestCase
{
use InteractsWithMailer;
public function test_something(): void
{
// ...some code that sends emails...
// Type-hinting the callback with your custom TestEmail triggers it to be
// injected instead of the standard TestEmail.
$this->mailer()->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', function(AppTestEmail $email) {
$email->assertHasPostmarkTag('password-reset');
});
$this->mailer()->sentEmails()->each(function(AppTestEmail $email) {
$email->assertHasPostmarkTag('password-reset');
});
// add your custom TestEmail as an argument to these methods to change the return type
$this->mailer()->sentEmails()->first(AppTestEmail::class); // AppTestEmail
$this->mailer()->sentEmails()->last(AppTestEmail::class); // AppTestEmail
$this->mailer()->sentEmails()->all(AppTestEmail::class); // AppTestEmail[]
}
}
This library provides a zenstruck/browser
"Component" and
"Extension". Since browser's
make HTTP requests to your app, the messages are accessed via the profiler (using
symfony/mailer
's data collector). Because of this, the InteractsWithMailer
trait
is not required in your test case. Since the profiler is required, this functionality
is not available with PantherBrowser
.
The simplest way to get started testing emails with zenstruck/browser
is to use the
MailerComponent
:
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\Bridge\Zenstruck\Browser\MailerComponent;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail;
/** @var \Zenstruck\Browser\KernelBrowser $browser **/
$browser
->withProfiling() // enable the profiler for the next request
->visit('/page/that/does/not/send/email')
->use(function(MailerComponent $component) {
$component->assertNoEmailSent();
})
->withProfiling() // enable the profiler for the next request
->visit('/page/that/sends/email')
->use(function(MailerComponent $component) {
$component
->assertSentEmailCount(1)
->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', 'Email Subject')
->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', function(TestEmail $email) {
// see Usage section above for full API
})
;
$component->sentEmails(); \Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\SentEmails
})
;
If many of your tests make email assertions the MailerComponent's API
can be a little verbose. Alternatively, you can add the methods directly on a
custom browser using the provided
MailerExtension
trait:
namespace App\Tests;
use Zenstruck\Browser\KernelBrowser;
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\Bridge\Zenstruck\Browser\MailerExtension;
class AppBrowser extends KernelBrowser
{
use MailerExtension;
}
Now, within your tests using this custom browser, the following email assertion API is available:
use Zenstruck\Mailer\Test\TestEmail;
/** @var \App\Tests\AppBrowser $browser **/
$browser
->withProfiling() // enable the profiler for the next request
->visit('/page/that/does/not/send/email')
->assertNoEmailSent()
->withProfiling() // enable the profiler for the next request
->visit('/page/that/sends/email')
->assertSentEmailCount(1)
->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', 'Email Subject')
->assertEmailSentTo('[email protected]', function(TestEmail $email) {
// see Usage section above for full API
})
;