This is a package that stores and queues e-mails using a database table. Easily send e-mails using a cronjob or schedule e-mails that should be sent at a specific date and time.

First, require the package using composer.

$ composer require buildcode/laravel-database-emails

If you're running Laravel 5.5 or later you may skip this step. Add the service provider to your application.

Buildcode\LaravelDatabaseEmails\LaravelDatabaseEmailsServiceProvider::class,

Publish the configuration file.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Buildcode\\LaravelDatabaseEmails\\LaravelDatabaseEmailsServiceProvider

Create the e-mails database table migration.

$ php artisan email:table
$ php artisan migrate

Now add the e-mail cronjob to your scheduler.

/**
 * Define the application's command schedule.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule  $schedule
 * @return void
 */
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
     $schedule->command('email:send')->everyMinute();
}

Buildcode\LaravelDatabaseEmails\Email::compose()
    ->label('welcome-mail-1.0')
    ->recipient('[email protected]')
    ->subject('This is a test')
    ->view('emails.welcome')
    ->variables([
        'name' => 'John Doe',
    ])
    ->send();

You may schedule an e-mail by calling schedule instead of send at the end of the chain. You must provide a Carbon instance or a strtotime valid date.

Buildcode\LaravelDatabaseEmails\Email::compose()
  ->label('welcome-mail-1.0')
  ->recipient('[email protected]')
  ->subject('This is a test')
  ->view('emails.welcome')
  ->variables([
      'name' => 'John Doe',
  ])
  ->schedule('+2 hours');

If you're not running the cronjob and wish to send the queued e-mails, you can run the email:send command.

$ php artisan email:send

By default, we will attempt to send an e-mail 3 times if it fails. If it still fails the 3rd time, it will permanently be marked as failed. You can change the number of times an e-mail should be attempted to be sent using the retry.attempts configuration.

If you wish to retry sending failed e-mails, you may call the email:retry command. The command will grab any failed e-mail and push it onto the queue. You may also provide the id of a specific e-mail.

$ php artisan email:retry
# or...
$ php artisan email:retry 1

If you wish to encrypt your e-mails, please enable the encrypt option in the configuration file. This is disabled by default. Encryption and decryption will be handled by Laravel's built-in encryption mechanism. Please note that encrypting the e-mail body takes a lot of disk space.

If you wish to send e-mails to a test address but don't necessarily want to use a service like mailtrap, please take a look at the testing configuration. This is turned on by default.

During the creation of an e-mail, the recipient will be replaced by the test e-mail. This is useful for local development or testing on a staging server.

• Add support for attachments
• Add support for Mailables