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- Testing email into laravel.log
- Preview Mailables
- Preview Mail without Mailables
- Default Email Subject in Laravel Notifications
- Send Notifications to Anyone
If you want to test email contents in your app but unable or unwilling to set up something like Mailgun, use .env parameter MAIL_DRIVER=log and all the email will be saved into storage/logs/laravel.log file, instead of actually being sent.
If you use Mailables to send email, you can preview the result without sending, directly in your browser. Just return a Mailable as route result:
Route::get('/mailable', function () {
$invoice = App\Invoice::find(1);
return new App\Mail\InvoicePaid($invoice);
});You can also preview your email without Mailables. For instance, when you are creating notification, you can specify the markdown that may be use for your mail notification.
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
Route::get('/mailable', function () {
$invoice = App\Invoice::find(1);
return (new MailMessage)->markdown('emails.invoice-paid', compact('invoice'));
});You may also use other methods provided by MailMessage object such as view and others.
Tip given by @raditzfarhan
If you send Laravel Notification and don't specify subject in toMail(), default subject is your notification class name, CamelCased into Spaces.
So, if you have:
class UserRegistrationEmail extends Notification {
//
}Then you will receive an email with subject User Registration Email.
You can send Laravel Notifications not only to a certain user with $user->notify(), but also to anyone you want, via Notification::route(), with so-called "on-demand" notifications:
Notification::route('mail', '[email protected]')
->route('nexmo', '5555555555')
->route('slack', 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...')
->notify(new InvoicePaid($invoice));