README

Framework agnostic library to queue and send emails from multiple services using a consistent API.

NOTE: Development is currently underway to integrate additional mail services (adapters) to Mail Manager, and these will be released as they are developed.

• License
• Author
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

Author

• Bayfront Media homepage
• Bayfront Media GitHub

Requirements

• PHP ^8.0 (Tested up to 8.4)
• PDO PHP extension

Installation

composer require bayfrontmedia/mail-manager

Usage

NOTE: All exceptions thrown by Mail Manager extend Bayfront\MailManager\Exceptions\MailException, so you can choose to catch exceptions as narrowly or broadly as you like.

Adapter

A Bayfront\MailManager\AdapterInterface must be passed to both the Bayfront\MailManager\Mail, and the Bayfront\MailManager\MailQueue constructors. There are a variety of adapters available, each with their own required configuration.

In addition, you may also create and use your own adapters to be used with Mail Manager.

All adapters have a getInstance() method, which can be used to get the underlying instance used by the adapter.

PHPMailer

The PHPMailer adapter allows you to use PHPMailer for sending messages.

use Bayfront\MailManager\Adapters\PHPMailer;

$config = [
    'smtp' => true,
    'smtp_auth' => true,
    'smtp_secure' => 'tls', // STARTTLS or SMTPS
    'host' => 'mail.example.com',
    'port' => 587,
    'username' => 'your_name@example.com',
    'password' => 'your_password',
    'debug' => false
];

try {

    $adapter = new PHPMailer($config);

} catch (AdapterException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

The PHPMailer adapter also has a testConnection() method you can use to test for a successful connection to the SMTP server.

Start using Mail Manager

You may choose one of the following classes to use:

The Bayfront\MailManager\Mail class allows for the creation and immediate sending of messages. No database is needed.

The Bayfront\MailManager\MailQueue class is the same as above, only it requires a PDO instance to work with queued messages. Queued messages allow for messages to be sent programmatically at a later date.

Mail default configuration

use Bayfront\MailManager\Mail;

$mail = new Mail($adapter);

MailQueue default configuration

use Bayfront\MailManager\MailQueue;
use Bayfront\MailManager\Exceptions\QueueException;

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=example.com;dbname=database_name', 'username', 'password');

$queue_config = [
    'table' => 'mail_queue', // Name of database table to use
    'max_attempts' => 3 // Maximum number of failed sending attempts before deleting message
];

try {

    $queue = new MailQueue($adapter, $pdo, $queue_config);

} catch (QueueException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

Public methods

• create
• addAddress
• addCc
• addBcc
• addAttachment
• discard
• send

MailQueue only

• addQueue
• removeQueue
• getQueue
• sendQueue

create

Description:

Create a new message.

Parameters:

• $message (array)

Returns:

• (self)

Throws

• Bayfront\MailManager\Exceptions\MessageException

Example:

$message = [
    'to' => [ // Array of recipients
        [
            'address' => 'to@example.com'.
            'name' => 'Recipient name' // Optional
        ]
    ],
    'from' => [
        'address' => 'you@example.com'
        'name' => 'Your name' // Optional
    ],
    'subject' => 'Message subject',
    'body' => 'Message body'
];

try {

    $mail->create($message);

} catch (MessageException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

addAddress

Description:

Add a "To" recipient.

Parameters:

• $address (string)
• $name = NULL (string|null): If NULL, a name will not be defined

Returns:

• (self)

Example:

$mail->addAddress('jane.doe@example.com', 'Jane Doe');

addCc

Description:

Add a "Cc" recipient.

Parameters:

• $address (string)
• $name = NULL (string|null): If NULL, a name will not be defined

Returns:

• (self)

Example:

$mail->addCC('jane.doe@example.com', 'Jane Doe');

addBcc

Description:

Add a "Bcc" recipient.

Parameters:

• $address (string)
• $name = NULL (string|null): If NULL, a name will not be defined

Returns:

• (self)

Example:

$mail->addBCC('jane.doe@example.com', 'Jane Doe');

addAttachment

Description:

Add an attachment.

Parameters:

• $file (string): Path to the file
• $name = NULL (string|null): New name to assign to file. If NULL, the existing name will be used.

Returns:

• (self)

Example:

$mail->addAttachment('/path/to/existing/image.jpg', 'new-name.jpg');

discard

Description:

Discard message.

Parameters:

• None

Returns:

• (self)

Example:

$mail->discard();

send

Description:

Send message.

Parameters:

• None

Returns:

• (void)

Throws:

• Bayfront\MailManager\MessageException

Example:

$mail->send();

addQueue

NOTE: This method is only available with the MailQueue class.

Description:

Queue message.

Parameters:

• $date_due (\DateTimeInterface)
• $priority = 5 (int): Messages will be sent in order by due date sorted by priority in descending order

Returns:

• (void)

Throws:

• Bayfront\MailManager\QueueException

Example:

$message = [
    'to' => [ // Array of recipients
        [
            'address' => 'to@example.com'.
            'name' => 'Recipient name' // Optional
        ]
    ],
    'from' => [
        'address' => 'you@example.com'
        'name' => 'Your name' // Optional
    ],
    'subject' => 'Message subject',
    'body' => 'Message body'
];

try {

    $mail->create($message);

} catch (MessageException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

try {

    $mail->addQueue(new \Datetime('2020-10-01 10:35:00'));

} catch (QueueException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

removeQueue

NOTE: This method is only available with the MailQueue class.

Description:

Remove a given ID from the queue.

Parameters:

• $id (int): Unique id from the database table

Returns:

• (bool)

Throws:

• Bayfront\MailManager\QueueException

Example:

$mail->removeQueue(35);

getQueue

NOTE: This method is only available with the MailQueue class.

Description:

Get all messages in queue that are due, up to a given limit.

Parameters:

• $limit = 0 (int): 0 to get all

Returns:

• (array)

Throws:

• Bayfront\MailManager\QueueException

Example:

try {

    print_r($mail->getQueue());

} catch (QueueException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

sendQueue

NOTE: This method is only available with the MailQueue class.

Description:

Send messages in queue that are due, up to a given limit.

Parameters:

• $limit = 0 (int): 0 to send all

Returns:

• (array)

Throws:

• Bayfront\MailManager\QueueException

Example:

try {

    $results = $mail->sendQueue(50); // Send up to 50 queued messages

} catch (QueueException $e) {
    die($e->getMessage());
}

The returned array contains a result summary with the following structure:

[
    'sent' => 0, // Number of messages sent
    'removed' => 0, // Number of messages removed (exceeded max attempts)
    'failed' => 0, // Number of messages failed
    'failed_ids' => [] // Unique ID's of failed messages
];