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Ben Chamberlin
Ben Chamberlin

Reputation: 731

Set SendGrid category in Laravel's mail library

I'm sending an email in Laravel via SendGrid using the configuration suggested in SendGrid's docs.

Just to provide an example of how it looks now:

Mail::send('emails.demo', $data, function($message)
{
    $message->to('[email protected]', 'Jane Doe')->subject('This is a demo!');
});

The email itself works fine, but I'd like to add a SendGrid category. I've accomplished this in past non-Laravel projects using the addCategory() method in this repo.

My question: Is there an easy way to add a SendGrid category just using the Laravel mail library, or does it make more sense to just use the SendGrid PHP library?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2155

Answers (3)

Tycho
Tycho

Reputation: 131

There are two different ways of doing this depending on your MAIL_MAILER (or MAIL_DRIVER in Laravel <7).

When MAIL_DRIVER=smtp:

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('mail')
            ->from('')
            ->subject('')
            ->withSwiftMessage(function($message) {
                $message->getHeaders()->addTextHeader(
                    'X-SMTPAPI', json_encode(['category' => 'testing category'])
                );
            });
    }

Read more about the smtp driver: https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/laravel#adding-a-category-or-custom-field

When MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid:

   use Sichikawa\LaravelSendgridDriver\SendGrid;

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('mail')
            ->from('')
            ->subject('')
            ->sendgrid(['category' => 'testing category']);
    }

Read more about the sendgrid driver: https://github.com/s-ichikawa/laravel-sendgrid-driver

Upvotes: 2

bwest
bwest

Reputation: 9854

You can do this by adding an X-SMTPAPI header that contains the categories, but Laravel doesn't expose custom headers so you have to drop down to SwiftMailer directly. For an example, take a look at this thread

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Payne
Daniel Payne

Reputation: 125

I would just use the library, even though it isn't that pretty.

Upvotes: 2

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