Laravel send email to (notify) user using another email?

Question

Some users have another email address that is stored as secondary_email column in users table.

How to send Notification using $user->notify() to this secondary email address?

Answer 1

You would override the toMail method of your notification. For example:

use App\Mail\InvoicePaid as Mailable;

/**
 * Get the mail representation of the notification.
 *
 * @param  mixed  $notifiable
 * @return Mailable
 */
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    return (new Mailable($this->invoice))
           ->to($this->user->secondary_email ?? $this->user->email);
}

You can read more about formatting notifications here .

Answer 2

you can define a routeNotificationForMail method on the notifiable entity model

  public function routeNotificationForMail($notification)
    {
        // Return email address only...
        return $this->email_address;

        // Return email address and name...
        return [$this->email_address => $this->name];
    }

and then modify the function to suit your need. laravel documentation notifications