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Mohamed Said created a package that saves all mails sent out by a Laravel application to html files on disk. This can be incredibly useful when designing and debugging mails. It's implemented as a Laravel mail driver. Once installed you'll only have to change your driver to preview.

Take a look at the package on GitHub.

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Jens Segers made some benchmarks:

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Almost every email service has support for SMTP, and Laravel has an SMTP driver by default. So why even bother registering a custom email driver (aka API driver)?

First I thought it would make a difference in performance. So I did some quick tests on an Ubuntu Vagrant box.

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