README

A laravel package to easily resend system generated emails without going through entire application flow.

This package does not provide any UI. If you are looking for a UI wrapper, See laravel nova mail manager

How It Works?

This package will store all outgoing emails inside database and will track their status if they are successfully sent or not.

You can resend all unsent emails, Or resend specific emails if your client requests you to resend an email.

This package will only mark the status of emails whether they are sent or not. This package cannot determine whether the sent mail reached the user's email. So If a mail is marked as unsent, It means an error occured while sending the mail. It might be due to ratelimit on the email sender, Invalid email credentials, etc. Do not assume the status of sent as a successful email delivery.

Installation

This package can be installed using composer.

composer require binarybuilds/laravel-mail-manager

Next you must register the package's service provider by adding the below line to providers array inside config/app.php file.

    'providers' => [
        //
        \BinaryBuilds\LaravelMailManager\LaravelMailManagerServiceProvider::class
    ]

Conflicts With Laravel Telescope

This package currently conflicts with laravel telescope. If you are using laravel telescope in your application, Make sure you register this package service provider after the telescope service provider is registered.

If you are registering telescope using config/app.php file, Then add the service provider after the telescope service provider as shown below.

    'providers' => [
        //
        App\Providers\TelescopeServiceProvider::class,
        \BinaryBuilds\LaravelMailManager\LaravelMailManagerServiceProvider::class
    ]

If you are registering telescope manually using AppServiceProvider.php file, Then register this package service provider after the telescope service provider is registered as shown below

$this->app->register(TelescopeServiceProvider::class);
$this->app->register(LaravelMailManagerServiceProvider::class);

Next, Publish the package configuration file by running

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail-manager-config

Run migrations to create the table required to store the emails.

php artisan migrate

This will create a table mail_manager_mails. You can configure the table name using the published configuration file located in config/mail_manager.php

Usage

By default this package records all the outgoing mailables and notifications.

Ignoring Mailables And Notifications From Being Recorded

If you wish to ignore certain mailables or notifications from being recorded, You can add them to ignore array in config/mail_manager.php file.

Resending Mails

You can resend any mail by using the following command

php artisan mail-manager:resend-mail 1

Here 1 represents the ID of the mail to resend.

Resending All Un-Sent Mails

If you wish to resend all the mails which are unsent, You can use the following artisan command

php artisan mail-manager:resend-unsent-mail

Since this command will only resend the mails which are failed to send, You can safely schedule this command to resend your failed emails.

$schedule->command('mail-manager:resend-unsent-mail')->daily();

Deleting Older Entries

Since this package records all outgoing emails, Your database table will start growing quickly. To automatically delete older entires, This package provides an artisan command to schedule deletion of older entries.

You can schedule deletion of older entries by adding the following line to your scheduler.

$schedule->command('mail-manager:prune --hours=72')->daily();

This will delete all entries which are older than 72 hours.

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to Laravel mail manager! Please create a pull request with your contributions with detailed explanation of the changes you are proposing.

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.