Send raw mail via queue Laravel

Question

For testing purpose, I want to send raw mail via Queue.

I can send a raw mail like this:

Mail::raw('bonjour', function($message) {
   $message->subject('Email de test')
           ->to('test@example.org');
});

But is there a way to send a raw mail via Queue (without creating a View nor Mailable)?

Answer 1

I searched the past days without any outcome to accomplish exact this: a raw mail that can be queued.

Unfortunately I didn't found a solution without using Mailables and Views.

I assume you have the same reason as me: You want to send a 100% dynamically generated Mail from a string.

My solution was:

1. creating a view that only contains one variable: <?php echo $content;
2. create a mailable, passing the content to the constructor and set it to $this->content
3. copy everything inside the old mail-closure into the build-method of the mailable and replace every $message-> with $this
4. queue it ;)

---

public function send(Request $request) {
    $to = "test@example.org";
    $subject = "email de test";
    $content = "bonjour";
    Mail::send(new RawMailable($to, $subject, $content));
}

view (/ressources/view/emails/raw.blade.php):

{!! $content !!}

mailable:

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Dingo\Api\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class RawMailable extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels, ShouldQueue;

    private $mailTo;
    private $mailSubject;
    // the values that shouldnt appear in the mail should be private

    public $content;
    // public properties are accessible from the view

    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @param LayoutMailRawRequest $request
     */
    public function __construct($to, $subject, $content)
    {
        $this->content = $content;
        $this->mailSubject = $subject;
        $this->mailTo = $to;
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public function build()
    {
         $this->view('emails.raw');

         $this->subject($this->mailSubject)
              ->to($this->mailTo);
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use dispatch helper function to push Closure onto the Laravel job queue:

dispatch(function () use ($name) {
   Mail::raw('bonjour ' . $name, function($message) {
      $message->subject('Email de test')
              ->to('test@example.org');
   });
});

Answer 3

Basically laravel uses blades for cleaner rendering.

If you want to fire a mail on queue as you know:

Mail::queue('emails.welcome', $data, function ($message) {
    //
});

Now if we take a look at the MailQueue.php queue() function :

/**
 * Queue a new e-mail message for sending.
 *
 * @param  string|array  $view
 * @param  array   $data
 * @param  \Closure|string  $callback
 * @param  string  $queue
 * @return mixed
 */
public function queue($view, array $data, $callback, $queue = null);

So $view it can be either string or array. So you could try:

Mail::queue('string|| Array', $data, function ($message) {
    //
});