Maillog / Mail Developer

Maillog provides an easy possibility to log all mails for debugging purposes. It's possible to prevent the mails to being sent, so there is no need for an extra mail server to test the mail functionality of other modules or Backdrop core. Additionally you can immediately display the mail using the Devel module.

Features

• All emails being sent by the site may have a copy stored in the database for later review.

• All email delivery may be halted, preventing a site from sending out emails in situations where that might not be needed, e.g. for a local development copy of the site.

• If the Devel module is installed, emails can also be displayed on the page as they are being sent.

• If the MailSystem module is installed it is possible to control which of the installed email modules will be used to send messages from Maillog's settings page, mirroring MailSystem's functionality.

Configuration

1. On the User Accounts Permissions administration page ("Administer >> Configure

   People >> Permissions") there are three permissions to control:

   • The "Administer Maillog" permission allows users to access the settings page to control the module's options.

   • The "View Maillog" permission allows users to access the Maillog list page at admin/reports/maillog.

   • The "Delete Entries from the log" permission allows users to delete items from the log page.

2. The main administrative page controls the module's settings page: admin/config/development/maillog

Troubleshooting / known issues

If the email is not being logged then the site's default email system is not configured correctly. It is recommended to use the MailSystem module https://www.backdropcms.org/project/mailsystem to help with this. Alternatively, edit the system.mail.json file in your active config folder:

  "default-system": "MaillogMailSystem",

Related modules

Some similar modules that are available include:

• Reroute Email Reroutes outbound emails to a specific destination address.

Warning

Recording mails may be in violation of some regional legal regulations. The maintainers of this module deny all responsibility for how individual site owners & maintainers use this module.

License

This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.

Current Maintainers

• Laryn Kragt Bakker

Credits

• Ported to Backdrop CMS by herbdool
• This module is a port of the Maillog module for Drupal which was written and maintained by a large number of contributors, including:
  • Miro Dietiker
  • Sascha Grossenbacher
  • Damien McKenna