- Introduction
- Generating Mailables
- Writing Mailables
- Markdown Mailables
- Sending Mail
- Rendering Mailables
- Localizing Mailables
- Testing
- Mail and Local Development
- Events
- Custom Transports
Introduction
Sending email doesn't have to be complicated. Laravel provides a clean, simple email API powered by the popular Symfony Mailer component. Laravel and Symfony Mailer provide drivers for sending email via SMTP, Mailgun, Postmark, Amazon SES, and sendmail
, allowing you to quickly get started sending mail through a local or cloud based service of your choice.
Configuration
Laravel's email services may be configured via your application's config/mail.php
configuration file. Each mailer configured within this file may have its own unique configuration and even its own unique "transport", allowing your application to use different email services to send certain email messages. For example, your application might use Postmark to send transactional emails while using Amazon SES to send bulk emails.
Within your mail
configuration file, you will find a mailers
configuration array. This array contains a sample configuration entry for each of the major mail drivers / transports supported by Laravel, while the default
configuration value determines which mailer will be used by default when your application needs to send an email message.
Driver / Transport Prerequisites
The API based drivers such as Mailgun, Postmark, and MailerSend are often simpler and faster than sending mail via SMTP servers. Whenever possible, we recommend that you use one of these drivers.
Mailgun Driver
To use the Mailgun driver, install Symfony's Mailgun Mailer transport via Composer:
composer require symfony/mailgun-mailer symfony/http-client
Next, set the default
option in your application's config/mail.php
configuration file to mailgun
. After configuring your application's default mailer, verify that your config/services.php
configuration file contains the following options:
'mailgun' => [ 'transport' => 'mailgun', 'domain' => env('MAILGUN_DOMAIN'), 'secret' => env('MAILGUN_SECRET'),],
If you are not using the United States Mailgun region, you may define your region's endpoint in the services
configuration file:
'mailgun' => [ 'domain' => env('MAILGUN_DOMAIN'), 'secret' => env('MAILGUN_SECRET'), 'endpoint' => env('MAILGUN_ENDPOINT', 'api.eu.mailgun.net'),],
Postmark Driver
To use the Postmark driver, install Symfony's Postmark Mailer transport via Composer:
composer require symfony/postmark-mailer symfony/http-client
Next, set the default
option in your application's config/mail.php
configuration file to postmark
. After configuring your application's default mailer, verify that your config/services.php
configuration file contains the following options:
'postmark' => [ 'token' => env('POSTMARK_TOKEN'),],
If you would like to specify the Postmark message stream that should be used by a given mailer, you may add the message_stream_id
configuration option to the mailer's configuration array. This configuration array can be found in your application's config/mail.php
configuration file:
'postmark' => [ 'transport' => 'postmark', 'message_stream_id' => env('POSTMARK_MESSAGE_STREAM_ID'),],
This way you are also able to set up multiple Postmark mailers with different message streams.
SES Driver
To use the Amazon SES driver you must first install the Amazon AWS SDK for PHP. You may install this library via the Composer package manager:
composer require aws/aws-sdk-php
Next, set the default
option in your config/mail.php
configuration file to ses
and verify that your config/services.php
configuration file contains the following options:
'ses' => [ 'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'), 'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'), 'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION', 'us-east-1'),],
To utilize AWS temporary credentials via a session token, you may add a token
key to your application's SES configuration:
'ses' => [ 'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'), 'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'), 'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION', 'us-east-1'), 'token' => env('AWS_SESSION_TOKEN'),],
If you would like to define additional options that Laravel should pass to the AWS SDK's SendEmail
method when sending an email, you may define an options
array within your ses
configuration:
'ses' => [ 'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'), 'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'), 'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION', 'us-east-1'), 'options' => [ 'ConfigurationSetName' => 'MyConfigurationSet', 'EmailTags' => [ ['Name' => 'foo', 'Value' => 'bar'], ], ],],
MailerSend Driver
MailerSend, a transactional email and SMS service, maintains their own API based mail driver for Laravel. The package containing the driver may be installed via the Composer package manager:
composer require mailersend/laravel-driver
Once the package is installed, add the MAILERSEND_API_KEY
environment variable to your application's .env
file. In addition, the MAIL_MAILER
environment variable should be defined as mailersend
:
MAIL_MAILER=mailersendMAIL_FROM_NAME="App Name" MAILERSEND_API_KEY=your-api-key
To learn more about MailerSend, including how to use hosted templates, consult the MailerSend driver documentation.
Failover Configuration
Sometimes, an external service you have configured to send your application's mail may be down. In these cases, it can be useful to define one or more backup mail delivery configurations that will be used in case your primary delivery driver is down.
To accomplish this, you should define a mailer within your application's mail
configuration file that uses the failover
transport. The configuration array for your application's failover
mailer should contain an array of mailers
that reference the order in which configured mailers should be chosen for delivery:
'mailers' => [ 'failover' => [ 'transport' => 'failover', 'mailers' => [ 'postmark', 'mailgun', 'sendmail', ], ], // ...],
Once your failover mailer has been defined, you should set this mailer as the default mailer used by your application by specifying its name as the value of the default
configuration key within your application's mail
configuration file:
'default' => env('MAIL_MAILER', 'failover'),
Round Robin Configuration
The roundrobin
transport allows you to distribute your mailing workload across multiple mailers. To get started, define a mailer within your application's mail
configuration file that uses the roundrobin
transport. The configuration array for your application's roundrobin
mailer should contain an array of mailers
that reference which configured mailers should be used for delivery:
'mailers' => [ 'roundrobin' => [ 'transport' => 'roundrobin', 'mailers' => [ 'ses', 'postmark', ], ], // ...],
Once your round robin mailer has been defined, you should set this mailer as the default mailer used by your application by specifying its name as the value of the default
configuration key within your application's mail
configuration file:
'default' => env('MAIL_MAILER', 'roundrobin'),
The round robin transport selects a random mailer from the list of configured mailers and then switches to the next available mailer for each subsequent email. In contrast to failover
transport, which helps to achieve high availability, the roundrobin
transport provides load balancing.
Generating Mailables
When building Laravel applications, each type of email sent by your application is represented as a "mailable" class. These classes are stored in the app/Mail
directory. Don't worry if you don't see this directory in your application, since it will be generated for you when you create your first mailable class using the make:mail
Artisan command:
php artisan make:mail OrderShipped
Writing Mailables
Once you have generated a mailable class, open it up so we can explore its contents. Mailable class configuration is done in several methods, including the envelope
, content
, and attachments
methods.
The envelope
method returns an Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope
object that defines the subject and, sometimes, the recipients of the message. The content
method returns an Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content
object that defines the Blade template that will be used to generate the message content.
Configuring the Sender
Using the Envelope
First, let's explore configuring the sender of the email. Or, in other words, who the email is going to be "from". There are two ways to configure the sender. First, you may specify the "from" address on your message's envelope:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Address;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope; /** * Get the message envelope. */public function envelope(): Envelope{ return new Envelope( subject: 'Order Shipped', );}
If you would like, you may also specify a replyTo
address:
return new Envelope( replyTo: [ ], subject: 'Order Shipped',);
Using a Global from
Address
However, if your application uses the same "from" address for all of its emails, it can become cumbersome to add it to each mailable class you generate. Instead, you may specify a global "from" address in your config/mail.php
configuration file. This address will be used if no other "from" address is specified within the mailable class:
'from' => [ 'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),],
In addition, you may define a global "reply_to" address within your config/mail.php
configuration file:
Configuring the View
Within a mailable class's content
method, you may define the view
, or which template should be used when rendering the email's contents. Since each email typically uses a Blade template to render its contents, you have the full power and convenience of the Blade templating engine when building your email's HTML:
/** * Get the message content definition. */public function content(): Content{ return new Content( view: 'mail.orders.shipped', );}
You may wish to create a resources/views/emails
directory to house all of your email templates; however, you are free to place them wherever you wish within your resources/views
directory.
Plain Text Emails
If you would like to define a plain-text version of your email, you may specify the plain-text template when creating the message's Content
definition. Like the view
parameter, the text
parameter should be a template name which will be used to render the contents of the email. You are free to define both an HTML and plain-text version of your message:
/** * Get the message content definition. */public function content(): Content{ return new Content( view: 'mail.orders.shipped', text: 'mail.orders.shipped-text' );}
For clarity, the html
parameter may be used as an alias of the view
parameter:
return new Content( html: 'mail.orders.shipped', text: 'mail.orders.shipped-text');
View Data
Via Public Properties
Typically, you will want to pass some data to your view that you can utilize when rendering the email's HTML. There are two ways you may make data available to your view. First, any public property defined on your mailable class will automatically be made available to the view. So, for example, you may pass data into your mailable class's constructor and set that data to public properties defined on the class:
<?php namespace App\Mail; use App\Models\Order;use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content;use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; class OrderShipped extends Mailable{ use Queueable, SerializesModels; /** * Create a new message instance. */ public function __construct( public Order $order, ) {} /** * Get the message content definition. */ public function content(): Content { return new Content( view: 'mail.orders.shipped', ); }}
Once the data has been set to a public property, it will automatically be available in your view, so you may access it like you would access any other data in your Blade templates:
<div> Price: {{ $order->price }}</div>
Via the with
Parameter:
If you would like to customize the format of your email's data before it is sent to the template, you may manually pass your data to the view via the Content
definition's with
parameter. Typically, you will still pass data via the mailable class's constructor; however, you should set this data to protected
or private
properties so the data is not automatically made available to the template:
<?php namespace App\Mail; use App\Models\Order;use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content;use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; class OrderShipped extends Mailable{ use Queueable, SerializesModels; /** * Create a new message instance. */ public function __construct( protected Order $order, ) {} /** * Get the message content definition. */ public function content(): Content { return new Content( view: 'mail.orders.shipped', with: [ 'orderName' => $this->order->name, 'orderPrice' => $this->order->price, ], ); }}
Once the data has been passed to the with
method, it will automatically be available in your view, so you may access it like you would access any other data in your Blade templates:
<div> Price: {{ $orderPrice }}</div>
Attachments
To add attachments to an email, you will add attachments to the array returned by the message's attachments
method. First, you may add an attachment by providing a file path to the fromPath
method provided by the Attachment
class:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment; /** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file'), ];}
When attaching files to a message, you may also specify the display name and / or MIME type for the attachment using the as
and withMime
methods:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file') ->as('name.pdf') ->withMime('application/pdf'), ];}
Attaching Files From Disk
If you have stored a file on one of your filesystem disks, you may attach it to the email using the fromStorage
attachment method:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromStorage('/path/to/file'), ];}
Of course, you may also specify the attachment's name and MIME type:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromStorage('/path/to/file') ->as('name.pdf') ->withMime('application/pdf'), ];}
The fromStorageDisk
method may be used if you need to specify a storage disk other than your default disk:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromStorageDisk('s3', '/path/to/file') ->as('name.pdf') ->withMime('application/pdf'), ];}
Raw Data Attachments
The fromData
attachment method may be used to attach a raw string of bytes as an attachment. For example, you might use this method if you have generated a PDF in memory and want to attach it to the email without writing it to disk. The fromData
method accepts a closure which resolves the raw data bytes as well as the name that the attachment should be assigned:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [ Attachment::fromData(fn () => $this->pdf, 'Report.pdf') ->withMime('application/pdf'), ];}
Inline Attachments
Embedding inline images into your emails is typically cumbersome; however, Laravel provides a convenient way to attach images to your emails. To embed an inline image, use the embed
method on the $message
variable within your email template. Laravel automatically makes the $message
variable available to all of your email templates, so you don't need to worry about passing it in manually:
<body> Here is an image: <img src="{{ $message->embed($pathToImage) }}"></body>
The $message
variable is not available in plain-text message templates since plain-text messages do not utilize inline attachments.
Embedding Raw Data Attachments
If you already have a raw image data string you wish to embed into an email template, you may call the embedData
method on the $message
variable. When calling the embedData
method, you will need to provide a filename that should be assigned to the embedded image:
<body> Here is an image from raw data: <img src="{{ $message->embedData($data, 'example-image.jpg') }}"></body>
Attachable Objects
While attaching files to messages via simple string paths is often sufficient, in many cases the attachable entities within your application are represented by classes. For example, if your application is attaching a photo to a message, your application may also have a Photo
model that represents that photo. When that is the case, wouldn't it be convenient to simply pass the Photo
model to the attach
method? Attachable objects allow you to do just that.
To get started, implement the Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Attachable
interface on the object that will be attachable to messages. This interface dictates that your class defines a toMailAttachment
method that returns an Illuminate\Mail\Attachment
instance:
<?php namespace App\Models; use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Attachable;use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;use Illuminate\Mail\Attachment; class Photo extends Model implements Attachable{ /** * Get the attachable representation of the model. */ public function toMailAttachment(): Attachment { return Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file'); }}
Once you have defined your attachable object, you may return an instance of that object from the attachments
method when building an email message:
/** * Get the attachments for the message. * * @return array<int, \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment> */public function attachments(): array{ return [$this->photo];}
Of course, attachment data may be stored on a remote file storage service such as Amazon S3. So, Laravel also allows you to generate attachment instances from data that is stored on one of your application's filesystem disks:
// Create an attachment from a file on your default disk...return Attachment::fromStorage($this->path); // Create an attachment from a file on a specific disk...return Attachment::fromStorageDisk('backblaze', $this->path);
In addition, you may create attachment instances via data that you have in memory. To accomplish this, provide a closure to the fromData
method. The closure should return the raw data that represents the attachment:
return Attachment::fromData(fn () => $this->content, 'Photo Name');
Laravel also provides additional methods that you may use to customize your attachments. For example, you may use the as
and withMime
methods to customize the file's name and MIME type:
return Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file') ->as('Photo Name') ->withMime('image/jpeg');
Headers
Sometimes you may need to attach additional headers to the outgoing message. For instance, you may need to set a custom Message-Id
or other arbitrary text headers.
To accomplish this, define a headers
method on your mailable. The headers
method should return an Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Headers
instance. This class accepts messageId
, references
, and text
parameters. Of course, you may provide only the parameters you need for your particular message:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Headers; /** * Get the message headers. */public function headers(): Headers{ return new Headers( text: [ 'X-Custom-Header' => 'Custom Value', ], );}
Tags and Metadata
Some third-party email providers such as Mailgun and Postmark support message "tags" and "metadata", which may be used to group and track emails sent by your application. You may add tags and metadata to an email message via your Envelope
definition:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope; /** * Get the message envelope. * * @return \Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope */public function envelope(): Envelope{ return new Envelope( subject: 'Order Shipped', tags: ['shipment'], metadata: [ 'order_id' => $this->order->id, ], );}
If your application is using the Mailgun driver, you may consult Mailgun's documentation for more information on tags and metadata. Likewise, the Postmark documentation may also be consulted for more information on their support for tags and metadata.
If your application is using Amazon SES to send emails, you should use the metadata
method to attach SES "tags" to the message.
Customizing the Symfony Message
Laravel's mail capabilities are powered by Symfony Mailer. Laravel allows you to register custom callbacks that will be invoked with the Symfony Message instance before sending the message. This gives you an opportunity to deeply customize the message before it is sent. To accomplish this, define a using
parameter on your Envelope
definition:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope;use Symfony\Component\Mime\Email; /** * Get the message envelope. */public function envelope(): Envelope{ return new Envelope( subject: 'Order Shipped', using: [ function (Email $message) { // ... }, ] );}
Markdown Mailables
Markdown mailable messages allow you to take advantage of the pre-built templates and components of mail notifications in your mailables. Since the messages are written in Markdown, Laravel is able to render beautiful, responsive HTML templates for the messages while also automatically generating a plain-text counterpart.
Generating Markdown Mailables
To generate a mailable with a corresponding Markdown template, you may use the --markdown
option of the make:mail
Artisan command:
php artisan make:mail OrderShipped --markdown=mail.orders.shipped
Then, when configuring the mailable Content
definition within its content
method, use the markdown
parameter instead of the view
parameter:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Content; /** * Get the message content definition. */public function content(): Content{ return new Content( markdown: 'mail.orders.shipped', with: [ 'url' => $this->orderUrl, ], );}
Writing Markdown Messages
Markdown mailables use a combination of Blade components and Markdown syntax which allow you to easily construct mail messages while leveraging Laravel's pre-built email UI components:
<x-mail::message># Order Shipped Your order has been shipped! <x-mail::button :url="$url">View Order</x-mail::button> Thanks,<br>{{ config('app.name') }}</x-mail::message>
Do not use excess indentation when writing Markdown emails. Per Markdown standards, Markdown parsers will render indented content as code blocks.
Button Component
The button component renders a centered button link. The component accepts two arguments, a url
and an optional color
. Supported colors are primary
, success
, and error
. You may add as many button components to a message as you wish:
<x-mail::button :url="$url" color="success">View Order</x-mail::button>
Panel Component
The panel component renders the given block of text in a panel that has a slightly different background color than the rest of the message. This allows you to draw attention to a given block of text:
<x-mail::panel>This is the panel content.</x-mail::panel>
Table Component
The table component allows you to transform a Markdown table into an HTML table. The component accepts the Markdown table as its content. Table column alignment is supported using the default Markdown table alignment syntax:
<x-mail::table>| Laravel | Table | Example || ------------- |:-------------:| --------:|| Col 2 is | Centered | $10 || Col 3 is | Right-Aligned | $20 |</x-mail::table>
Customizing the Components
You may export all of the Markdown mail components to your own application for customization. To export the components, use the vendor:publish
Artisan command to publish the laravel-mail
asset tag:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail
This command will publish the Markdown mail components to the resources/views/vendor/mail
directory. The mail
directory will contain an html
and a text
directory, each containing their respective representations of every available component. You are free to customize these components however you like.
Customizing the CSS
After exporting the components, the resources/views/vendor/mail/html/themes
directory will contain a default.css
file. You may customize the CSS in this file and your styles will automatically be converted to inline CSS styles within the HTML representations of your Markdown mail messages.
If you would like to build an entirely new theme for Laravel's Markdown components, you may place a CSS file within the html/themes
directory. After naming and saving your CSS file, update the theme
option of your application's config/mail.php
configuration file to match the name of your new theme.
To customize the theme for an individual mailable, you may set the $theme
property of the mailable class to the name of the theme that should be used when sending that mailable.
Sending Mail
To send a message, use the to
method on the Mail
facade. The to
method accepts an email address, a user instance, or a collection of users. If you pass an object or collection of objects, the mailer will automatically use their email
and name
properties when determining the email's recipients, so make sure these attributes are available on your objects. Once you have specified your recipients, you may pass an instance of your mailable class to the send
method:
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;use App\Mail\OrderShipped;use App\Models\Order;use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;use Illuminate\Http\Request;use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail; class OrderShipmentController extends Controller{ /** * Ship the given order. */ public function store(Request $request): RedirectResponse { $order = Order::findOrFail($request->order_id); // Ship the order... Mail::to($request->user())->send(new OrderShipped($order)); return redirect('/orders'); }}
You are not limited to just specifying the "to" recipients when sending a message. You are free to set "to", "cc", and "bcc" recipients by chaining their respective methods together:
Mail::to($request->user()) ->cc($moreUsers) ->bcc($evenMoreUsers) ->send(new OrderShipped($order));
Looping Over Recipients
Occasionally, you may need to send a mailable to a list of recipients by iterating over an array of recipients / email addresses. However, since the to
method appends email addresses to the mailable's list of recipients, each iteration through the loop will send another email to every previous recipient. Therefore, you should always re-create the mailable instance for each recipient:
Mail::to($recipient)->send(new OrderShipped($order));}
Sending Mail via a Specific Mailer
By default, Laravel will send email using the mailer configured as the default
mailer in your application's mail
configuration file. However, you may use the mailer
method to send a message using a specific mailer configuration:
Mail::mailer('postmark') ->to($request->user()) ->send(new OrderShipped($order));
Queueing Mail
Queueing a Mail Message
Since sending email messages can negatively impact the response time of your application, many developers choose to queue email messages for background sending. Laravel makes this easy using its built-in unified queue API. To queue a mail message, use the queue
method on the Mail
facade after specifying the message's recipients:
Mail::to($request->user()) ->cc($moreUsers) ->bcc($evenMoreUsers) ->queue(new OrderShipped($order));
This method will automatically take care of pushing a job onto the queue so the message is sent in the background. You will need to configure your queues before using this feature.
Delayed Message Queueing
If you wish to delay the delivery of a queued email message, you may use the later
method. As its first argument, the later
method accepts a DateTime
instance indicating when the message should be sent:
Mail::to($request->user()) ->cc($moreUsers) ->bcc($evenMoreUsers) ->later(now()->addMinutes(10), new OrderShipped($order));
Pushing to Specific Queues
Since all mailable classes generated using the make:mail
command make use of the Illuminate\Bus\Queueable
trait, you may call the onQueue
and onConnection
methods on any mailable class instance, allowing you to specify the connection and queue name for the message:
$message = (new OrderShipped($order)) ->onConnection('sqs') ->onQueue('emails'); Mail::to($request->user()) ->cc($moreUsers) ->bcc($evenMoreUsers) ->queue($message);
Queueing by Default
If you have mailable classes that you want to always be queued, you may implement the ShouldQueue
contract on the class. Now, even if you call the send
method when mailing, the mailable will still be queued since it implements the contract:
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue; class OrderShipped extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue{ // ...}
Queued Mailables and Database Transactions
When queued mailables are dispatched within database transactions, they may be processed by the queue before the database transaction has committed. When this happens, any updates you have made to models or database records during the database transaction may not yet be reflected in the database. In addition, any models or database records created within the transaction may not exist in the database. If your mailable depends on these models, unexpected errors can occur when the job that sends the queued mailable is processed.
If your queue connection's after_commit
configuration option is set to false
, you may still indicate that a particular queued mailable should be dispatched after all open database transactions have been committed by calling the afterCommit
method when sending the mail message:
Mail::to($request->user())->send( (new OrderShipped($order))->afterCommit());
Alternatively, you may call the afterCommit
method from your mailable's constructor:
<?php namespace App\Mail; use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; class OrderShipped extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue{ use Queueable, SerializesModels; /** * Create a new message instance. */ public function __construct() { $this->afterCommit(); }}
To learn more about working around these issues, please review the documentation regarding queued jobs and database transactions.
Rendering Mailables
Sometimes you may wish to capture the HTML content of a mailable without sending it. To accomplish this, you may call the render
method of the mailable. This method will return the evaluated HTML content of the mailable as a string:
use App\Mail\InvoicePaid;use App\Models\Invoice; $invoice = Invoice::find(1); return (new InvoicePaid($invoice))->render();
Previewing Mailables in the Browser
When designing a mailable's template, it is convenient to quickly preview the rendered mailable in your browser like a typical Blade template. For this reason, Laravel allows you to return any mailable directly from a route closure or controller. When a mailable is returned, it will be rendered and displayed in the browser, allowing you to quickly preview its design without needing to send it to an actual email address:
Route::get('/mailable', function () { $invoice = App\Models\Invoice::find(1); return new App\Mail\InvoicePaid($invoice);});
Localizing Mailables
Laravel allows you to send mailables in a locale other than the request's current locale, and will even remember this locale if the mail is queued.
To accomplish this, the Mail
facade offers a locale
method to set the desired language. The application will change into this locale when the mailable's template is being evaluated and then revert back to the previous locale when evaluation is complete:
Mail::to($request->user())->locale('es')->send( new OrderShipped($order));
User Preferred Locales
Sometimes, applications store each user's preferred locale. By implementing the HasLocalePreference
contract on one or more of your models, you may instruct Laravel to use this stored locale when sending mail:
use Illuminate\Contracts\Translation\HasLocalePreference; class User extends Model implements HasLocalePreference{ /** * Get the user's preferred locale. */ public function preferredLocale(): string { return $this->locale; }}
Once you have implemented the interface, Laravel will automatically use the preferred locale when sending mailables and notifications to the model. Therefore, there is no need to call the locale
method when using this interface:
Mail::to($request->user())->send(new OrderShipped($order));
Testing
Testing Mailable Content
Laravel provides a variety of methods for inspecting your mailable's structure. In addition, Laravel provides several convenient methods for testing that your mailable contains the content that you expect. These methods are: assertSeeInHtml
, assertDontSeeInHtml
, assertSeeInOrderInHtml
, assertSeeInText
, assertDontSeeInText
, assertSeeInOrderInText
, assertHasAttachment
, assertHasAttachedData
, assertHasAttachmentFromStorage
, and assertHasAttachmentFromStorageDisk
.
As you might expect, the "HTML" assertions assert that the HTML version of your mailable contains a given string, while the "text" assertions assert that the plain-text version of your mailable contains a given string:
use App\Mail\InvoicePaid;use App\Models\User; public function test_mailable_content(): void{ $user = User::factory()->create(); $mailable = new InvoicePaid($user); $mailable->assertHasSubject('Invoice Paid'); $mailable->assertHasTag('example-tag'); $mailable->assertHasMetadata('key', 'value'); $mailable->assertSeeInHtml($user->email); $mailable->assertSeeInHtml('Invoice Paid'); $mailable->assertSeeInOrderInHtml(['Invoice Paid', 'Thanks']); $mailable->assertSeeInText($user->email); $mailable->assertSeeInOrderInText(['Invoice Paid', 'Thanks']); $mailable->assertHasAttachment('/path/to/file'); $mailable->assertHasAttachment(Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file')); $mailable->assertHasAttachedData($pdfData, 'name.pdf', ['mime' => 'application/pdf']); $mailable->assertHasAttachmentFromStorage('/path/to/file', 'name.pdf', ['mime' => 'application/pdf']); $mailable->assertHasAttachmentFromStorageDisk('s3', '/path/to/file', 'name.pdf', ['mime' => 'application/pdf']);}
Testing Mailable Sending
We suggest testing the content of your mailables separately from your tests that assert that a given mailable was "sent" to a specific user. Typically, the content of mailables is not relevant to the code you are testing, and it is sufficient to simply assert that Laravel was instructed to send a given mailable.
You may use the Mail
facade's fake
method to prevent mail from being sent. After calling the Mail
facade's fake
method, you may then assert that mailables were instructed to be sent to users and even inspect the data the mailables received:
<?php namespace Tests\Feature; use App\Mail\OrderShipped;use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;use Tests\TestCase; class ExampleTest extends TestCase{ public function test_orders_can_be_shipped(): void { Mail::fake(); // Perform order shipping... // Assert that no mailables were sent... Mail::assertNothingSent(); // Assert that a mailable was sent... Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class); // Assert a mailable was sent twice... Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class, 2); // Assert a mailable was not sent... Mail::assertNotSent(AnotherMailable::class); // Assert 3 total mailables were sent... Mail::assertSentCount(3); }}
If you are queueing mailables for delivery in the background, you should use the assertQueued
method instead of assertSent
:
Mail::assertQueued(OrderShipped::class);Mail::assertNotQueued(OrderShipped::class);Mail::assertNothingQueued();Mail::assertQueuedCount(3);
You may pass a closure to the assertSent
, assertNotSent
, assertQueued
, or assertNotQueued
methods in order to assert that a mailable was sent that passes a given "truth test". If at least one mailable was sent that passes the given truth test then the assertion will be successful:
Mail::assertSent(function (OrderShipped $mail) use ($order) { return $mail->order->id === $order->id;});
When calling the Mail
facade's assertion methods, the mailable instance accepted by the provided closure exposes helpful methods for examining the mailable:
Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class, function (OrderShipped $mail) use ($user) { return $mail->hasTo($user->email) && $mail->hasCc('...') && $mail->hasBcc('...') && $mail->hasReplyTo('...') && $mail->hasFrom('...') && $mail->hasSubject('...');});
The mailable instance also includes several helpful methods for examining the attachments on a mailable:
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Attachment; Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class, function (OrderShipped $mail) { return $mail->hasAttachment( Attachment::fromPath('/path/to/file') ->as('name.pdf') ->withMime('application/pdf') );}); Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class, function (OrderShipped $mail) { return $mail->hasAttachment( Attachment::fromStorageDisk('s3', '/path/to/file') );}); Mail::assertSent(OrderShipped::class, function (OrderShipped $mail) use ($pdfData) { return $mail->hasAttachment( Attachment::fromData(fn () => $pdfData, 'name.pdf') );});
You may have noticed that there are two methods for asserting that mail was not sent: assertNotSent
and assertNotQueued
. Sometimes you may wish to assert that no mail was sent or queued. To accomplish this, you may use the assertNothingOutgoing
and assertNotOutgoing
methods:
Mail::assertNothingOutgoing(); Mail::assertNotOutgoing(function (OrderShipped $mail) use ($order) { return $mail->order->id === $order->id;});
Mail and Local Development
When developing an application that sends email, you probably don't want to actually send emails to live email addresses. Laravel provides several ways to "disable" the actual sending of emails during local development.
Log Driver
Instead of sending your emails, the log
mail driver will write all email messages to your log files for inspection. Typically, this driver would only be used during local development. For more information on configuring your application per environment, check out the configuration documentation.
HELO / Mailtrap / Mailpit
Alternatively, you may use a service like HELO or Mailtrap and the smtp
driver to send your email messages to a "dummy" mailbox where you may view them in a true email client. This approach has the benefit of allowing you to actually inspect the final emails in Mailtrap's message viewer.
If you are using Laravel Sail, you may preview your messages using Mailpit. When Sail is running, you may access the Mailpit interface at: http://localhost:8025
.
Using a Global to
Address
Finally, you may specify a global "to" address by invoking the alwaysTo
method offered by the Mail
facade. Typically, this method should be called from the boot
method of one of your application's service providers:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail; /** * Bootstrap any application services. */public function boot(): void{ if ($this->app->environment('local')) { }}
Events
Laravel fires two events during the process of sending mail messages. The MessageSending
event is fired prior to a message being sent, while the MessageSent
event is fired after a message has been sent. Remember, these events are fired when the mail is being sent, not when it is queued. You may register event listeners for this event in your App\Providers\EventServiceProvider
service provider:
use App\Listeners\LogSendingMessage;use App\Listeners\LogSentMessage;use Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSending;use Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSent; /** * The event listener mappings for the application. * * @var array */protected $listen = [ MessageSending::class => [ LogSendingMessage::class, ], MessageSent::class => [ LogSentMessage::class, ],];
Custom Transports
Laravel includes a variety of mail transports; however, you may wish to write your own transports to deliver email via other services that Laravel does not support out of the box. To get started, define a class that extends the Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\AbstractTransport
class. Then, implement the doSend
and __toString()
methods on your transport:
use MailchimpTransactional\ApiClient;use Symfony\Component\Mailer\SentMessage;use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\AbstractTransport;use Symfony\Component\Mime\Address;use Symfony\Component\Mime\MessageConverter; class MailchimpTransport extends AbstractTransport{ /** * Create a new Mailchimp transport instance. */ public function __construct( protected ApiClient $client, ) { parent::__construct(); } /** * {@inheritDoc} */ protected function doSend(SentMessage $message): void { $email = MessageConverter::toEmail($message->getOriginalMessage()); $this->client->messages->send(['message' => [ 'from_email' => $email->getFrom(), 'to' => collect($email->getTo())->map(function (Address $email) { return ['email' => $email->getAddress(), 'type' => 'to']; })->all(), 'subject' => $email->getSubject(), 'text' => $email->getTextBody(), ]]); } /** * Get the string representation of the transport. */ public function __toString(): string { return 'mailchimp'; }}
Once you've defined your custom transport, you may register it via the extend
method provided by the Mail
facade. Typically, this should be done within the boot
method of your application's AppServiceProvider
service provider. A $config
argument will be passed to the closure provided to the extend
method. This argument will contain the configuration array defined for the mailer in the application's config/mail.php
configuration file:
use App\Mail\MailchimpTransport;use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail; /** * Bootstrap any application services. */public function boot(): void{ Mail::extend('mailchimp', function (array $config = []) { return new MailchimpTransport(/* ... */); });}
Once your custom transport has been defined and registered, you may create a mailer definition within your application's config/mail.php
configuration file that utilizes the new transport:
'mailchimp' => [ 'transport' => 'mailchimp', // ...],
Additional Symfony Transports
Laravel includes support for some existing Symfony maintained mail transports like Mailgun and Postmark. However, you may wish to extend Laravel with support for additional Symfony maintained transports. You can do so by requiring the necessary Symfony mailer via Composer and registering the transport with Laravel. For example, you may install and register the "Brevo" (formerly "Sendinblue") Symfony mailer:
composer require symfony/brevo-mailer symfony/http-client
Once the Brevo mailer package has been installed, you may add an entry for your Brevo API credentials to your application's services
configuration file:
'brevo' => [ 'key' => 'your-api-key',],
Next, you may use the Mail
facade's extend
method to register the transport with Laravel. Typically, this should be done within the boot
method of a service provider:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Bridge\Brevo\Transport\BrevoTransportFactory;use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Dsn; /** * Bootstrap any application services. */public function boot(): void{ Mail::extend('brevo', function () { return (new BrevoTransportFactory)->create( new Dsn( 'brevo+api', 'default', config('services.brevo.key') ) ); });}
Once your transport has been registered, you may create a mailer definition within your application's config/mail.php configuration file that utilizes the new transport:
'brevo' => [ 'transport' => 'brevo', // ...],