Laravel Mail Export

This package can export any mail sent with Laravel's Mailable class to any desired filesystem disk and path as a .eml file.

This can be useful when wanting to store emails sent for archive purposes.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

For Laravel 9.x, 10.x, 11.x (requires PHP version 8.2 or higher)

composer require pod-point/laravel-mail-export

For Laravel 7.x and 8.x

composer require pod-point/laravel-mail-export:^1.0

For Laravel 5.x and 6.x

composer require pod-point/laravel-mail-export:^0.1

Publishing the config file

The configuration for this package comes with some sensible values but you can optionally publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="PodPoint\MailExport\MailExportServiceProvider"

You will be able to specify:

• enabled: whether this package is enabled or not. Once installed, it's enabled by default but the MAIL_EXPORT environment variable can be used to configure this.
• disk: which disk to use by default. null will use the default disk from your application filesystem.
• path: the default path, within the configured disk, where mail will be exported.

See our config/mail-export.php for more details.

Usage

Simply add the Exportable trait and the ShouldExport interface to any Mailable class that you want to persist into any storage disk.

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Concerns\Exportable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Contracts\ShouldExport;

class OrderShipped extends Mailable implements ShouldExport
{
    use Exportable;

    // ...
}

This will use the default filesystem disk and path from the configuration and will also generate a unique filename for you.

The default filename is using a timestamp, the mail recipients, the subject and will look like so:

2021_03_26_150142_jane_at_example_com_this_is_the_subject.eml

You can also specify the disk, path or filename to use for a specific Mailable using properties:

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Concerns\Exportable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Contracts\ShouldExport;

class OrderShipped extends Mailable implements ShouldExport
{
    use Exportable;

    public $exportDisk = 'some_disk';

    public $exportPath = 'some_path';

    public $exportFilename = 'some_filename';

    // ...
}

You can also use methods if you need more flexibility:

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Concerns\Exportable;
use PodPoint\MailExport\Contracts\ShouldExport;

class OrderShipped extends Mailable implements ShouldExport
{
    use Exportable;

    // ...

    public function exportDisk(): string
    {
        return 'some_disk';
    }

    public function exportPath(): string
    {
        return 'some_path';
    }

    public function exportFilename(): string
    {
        return 'some_filename';
    }
}

Then you can keep using your Mailable as usual:

Mail::to($request->user())->send(new OrderShipped($order));

Even with Notifications too:

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use App\Mail\OrderShipped as Mailable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;

class OrderShipped extends Notification
{
    // ...

    public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
        return (new Mailable($this->order))->to($notifiable->email);
    }
}

Testing

Run the tests with:

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• themsaid and Spatie's laravel-mail-preview for some inspiration
• Laravel Package Development documentation by John Braun
• Pod Point
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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