Mail Config

Default from address

You can set a global from address in config/mail.php instead of setting it each time on your mailables.

config/mail.php

           'from' => [
     'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', '[email protected]'),
     'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
 ],

Default to address

You might want to store email addresses of site owner in a config file so you can deliver admin emails to them through mailables.

Warning!

Do not create a to key in the config/mail.php file! This is reserved as a universal delivery address for development/testing. Doing this will override all delivery addresses on the mailables.

In the example below we will keep our ‘internal’ email addresses in a site key.

config/mail.php

           return [
     // ...
 
     // default sender details: config('mail.from')
     'from' => [
         'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', '[email protected]'),
         'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
     ],
 
     // univeral delivery address: config('mail.to')
     // warning - this is not a default but a forced override!
     'to' => [
         'address' => '[email protected]',
         'name' => 'Example'
     ],
 
     // custom key: config('mail.admin')
     // doesn't do anything by default
     'site' => [
         'owner' => [
             'name' => env('MAIL_OWNER_NAME', 'Site Owner'),
             'address' => env('MAIL_OWNER_ADDRESS', '[email protected]'
         ],
         'admin' => [
             'name' => env('MAIL_ADMIN_NAME', 'Admin'),
             'address' => env('MAIL_ADMIN_ADDRESS', '[email protected]')
         ],
     ],
 
 ];

You should know!

Note: the email address array keys are different for senders and recipients. Use associative array for every recpient with ‘email’ and ‘name’ keys.

In your mailable you can now use the site owner email address.

           namespace App\Mail;
 
 class ContactFormReceivedEmail extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue
 {
     use Queueable, SerializesModels;
 
     public function __construct(public Contact $contact)
     {
         //
     }
 
     public function build()
     {
         return $this->subject("New contact form submission")
             ->to(config('mail.site.owner'))
             ->replyTo($this->contact->email, $this->contact->name)
             ->markdown('emails.contact.received')
             ->text('emails.contact.received_text');
     }
 }

Alternatively, you could use the config(mail.from) address to set the recipient as the site owner. This saves having to create a custom key in the config file but prevents you from directing message to a different address than the sender address.

Sending emails to a list

A mail instance relates to a single email. This means the to method will append each address to the recipients list for that email - it will not send a new email for each address!

To send an individual email to each person you need to loop over the recipients and re-create the mailable instance for each recipient.

           $recipients = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]'];
 
 // send one email to all addresses
 Mail::to($recipients)->send(new OrderShipped($order));
 
 // send an individual email to each address
 foreach ($recipients as $recipient) {
     Mail::to($recipient)->send(new OrderShipped($order));
 }

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