Laravel Automatic Multiple Mail Sender

A tool to send emails separately to multiple addresses automatized with Laravel.

This is an Open Source project. Feel free to contribute!

Setup

1. Download/Clone the project

2. Composer install

Run composer install in the terminal

3.Configure the .env file.

You can use the .env.example file and then change the following lines:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=[your_mail_username]
MAIL_PASSWORD=[your_mail_password]
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls


MAIL_DEFAULT_SUBJECT = [default_subject]
MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER = [sender_email]

to your real data.

4. Gmail settings

If you are using gmail, go to https://myaccount.google.com/security#connectedapps

Check the option Sign-in & security -> Connected apps & sites -> Allow less secure apps settings. Turn the option "Allow less secure apps" ON.

5. Create template

You can use and change the default template located in resources/view/templates or create a new one in resources/views.

If you created a custom template, modify the name in the app/Mail/TemplateMail.php. In the function build(), replace the line

return $this->subject($subject)->from($senderEmail)->view('mail.template');

with return $this->subject($subject)->from($senderEmail)->view('mail.your-custom-template-name');

6. Setup your email addresses

Find the file app/Https/SendController.php and the function sendTemplateMail().

Replace the

$mails = [ 
            "[email protected]",
        ];

with your actual email adresses.

7. You can use the mail sender!

Go to the route /view-template in your app to see how the mail template will look.

Warnings and limitations

1. Be aware of the fact that the emails are sent one by one, separately to each email address. So if you have a lot of addresses, it may take you a lot of time. Be patient, even after the page is no more loading, the mails might still be sent!

2. If you want to use multiple templates and multiple emails, you will have to specify the sender and subject for each of them, not use the defaults in the .env file

FAQ

Q: What addresses will see the receiver?

A: The receiver will se only his address, if you don't modify the code. If you wish the mail to be sent to multiple addresses, and everyone to see all the addresses, comment the following lines:

foreach ($mails as $mail) {

and the corresponding closing bracket.

Also, replace the line

Mail::to($mail)->send(new TemplateMail());

with Mail::to($mails)->send(new TemplateMail());

(The variable $mails is an array containing multiple addresses)

Q: What happens if an email address is not correct? Will the mail be send to other addresses?

A: If some of the addresses are not correct, the mail will still be sent to other addresses, but you will see in your logs file the addresses that failed.

Contributors

Diana Marusic

Other resources

For more information, I would recommend you to read the following articles:

• https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/mail
• https://learninglaravel.net/learn-to-send-emails-using-gmail-and-sendgrid-in-laravel-5
• https://medium.com/@Oriechinedu/an-escape-route-to-problems-sending-email-using-gmail-smtp-in-php-laravel-4dd4c5e0533
• https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/247/how-to-send-an-email-gmail-outlook-and-zoho-in-laravel