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Laravel’s new build() methods allow dynamic configuration of mail, database, and cache settings.

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Read about how to encrypt queued jobs, notifications, mailables, and listeners in Laravel for improved security.

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In this post, you'll learn how Ray can help you preview emails in your local environment and how it can simplify the process of developing and testing email workflows in Laravel.

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In this tutorial I'll show you how to use event listeners to stop outgoing emails just before they're sent.

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In this tutorial I'll show you how to send e-mails from Laravel with Tailwind CSS. I'll learn you how to set this up and how to inline all the Tailwind CSS-classes.

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Quick @laravelphp tip: The `MailMessage` class has a `when` method that's useful to conditionally add things to the mailable. Great for adding optional lines. 🤠 pic.twitter.com/TGGb5J6zk2

— Wilbur Powery E. (@wilburpowery) February 22, 2021

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Testing emails can be a pain. Luckily, there are plenty of tools out there that can make the process a lot easier. Let me show you how to setup MailHog, a local development tool for testing emails.

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Contrary to the title, Gilles Chehade that it's acutually doable running your own mailserver.

TL;DR: Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it. Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing. Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none …

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Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent.

It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 tweets, 9 Slack messages, and 4 telegrams. All of which alerting me my SaSS product had sent 3,625 email messages to 1,544 users overnight. I am Jack's cold sweat. ?

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Marcel Pociot recently released another awesome package: laravel-mailbox. In a new post on his blog he guides us through the code.

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In an older post on his blog Mohammed Said, Laravel Employee #1, shares a cool trick on how to avoid having to create an event listener.

Instead of having to create a class for the listener and another for the notification/mailable, wouldn't it be cool if we can register the Notification/Mailable as an event listener? ... While some may consider this an anti-SRP hack I think it's a pretty neat implementation that you can use in your application to prevent creating an extra listener class, your call :)

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Most of the Laravel apps we create at Spatie will send mails. This can be a password reset mail, a welcome mail after registration, an order confirmation mail, ... One of the things we do is styling such mails so it has the same look and feel as the site it was sent from. When testing such mails our designers had to request a password reset or go through the entire checkout flow just to receive such an order confirmation mail. To make that testing process a lot easier we've created a package called laravel-mailable-test. This package provides an artisan command that can send a mailable to an mail-address.

To send any mailable issue this artisan command:

php artisan mail:send-test "App\Mail\MyMailable" recipient@mail.com

This will send the given mailable to the given email address. The to-, cc- and bcc-addresses that may be set in the given mailable will be cleared. The mail will only be sent to the email address given in the artisan command.

The package will provide a value for any typehinted argument of the constructor of the mailable. If an argument is a int, string or bool the package will generated a value using Faker. Any argument that typehints an Eloquent model will receive the first record of that model.

Image the constructor of your mailable looks like this:

public function __construct(string $title, Order $order) 
{
   ...
}

That constructor will receive a string generated by the sentence method of Faker and the first Order in your database.

The values that are passed to the constructor of the mailable can be customized using the values option of the command.

php artisan mail:send-test "App\Mail\MyMailable" recipient@mail.com --values="title:My title,order:5"

Using this command My title will be passed to $title and an Order with id 5 will be passed to $order.

To learn more about the package head over to the readme on GitHub. Be sure take also take a look at this list of Laravel packages our team has previously made.

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Over at Sitepoint, Younes Rafie wrote a tutorial on how to create a custom mail driver in Laravel 5.3. In the post he shows some code that can log all email to the database.

One of the many goodies Laravel offers is mailing. You can easily configure and send emails through multiple popular services. ... Laravel also provides a good starting point for sending mails during the development phase using the log driver, and in production using smtp, sparkpost, mailgun, etc. This seems fine in most cases, but it can’t cover all the available services! In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to extend the existing mail driver system to add our own.

https://www.sitepoint.com/mail-logging-in-laravel-5-3-extending-the-mail-driver/

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