Laravel 8 Send Mail using Queue

Websolutionstuff | Sep-24-2021 | Categories : Laravel PHP

In this tutorial I will show you laravel 8 send mail using queue, many time we can see some process to take more time to load like email send, cron job etc. Whenever you are sending email for verification then it load time to send mail because it is services. If you don't want to wait to user for send email or other process on loading server side process then you can use queue.

This tutorial will completely guide you on how to send mail using queue job in laravel 8. And you will learn step by step how to send email in laravel 8 using queue job with mailtrap.

So, let's start laravel 8 send mail using queue or how to send e-mail using queue in laravel 8.

Step 1 : Install Laravel

Install Laravel application using comoposer command.

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Step 2: Create Mail Setup

Create mail file SendEmailDemo using run below command in your terminal.

php artisan make:mail SendEmailDemo

Now you will find new Mail folder in app directory with SendEmailDemo.php file. So copy below code on this file.

app/Mail/SendEmailTest.php

<?php

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class SendEmailDemo extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->subject('Test Mail using Queue in Larvel 8')            
            ->view('email.demo');
    }
}

After that we need to create email view using blade file.So,we will create demo.blade.php following path.

resources/views/email/demo.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>How to send mail using queue in Laravel 8 ?</title>
</head>
<body>
   
<center>
<h2 style="padding: 23px;border: 6px red solid;">
	<a href="https://websolutionstuff.com">Visit Our Website : websolutionstuff.com</a>
</h2>
</center>
  
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>This is test mail. This mail send using queue listen in laravel 8.</p>  
<strong>Thanks & Regards.</strong>

</body>
</html>

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Now, we will configuration of view file, we have to setup for email send, So let' set configuration in .env file.

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=xxxx
MAIL_PASSWORD=xxxx
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=null
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Step 3: Configuration of Queue

Now, we are setup configuration on queue driver so first of all, we will set queue driver "database". You can set as you want also we will define driver as redis too. So here define database driver on .env file.

QUEUE_CONNECTION=database

After that we need to generate migration and create tables for queue. So let's run below command for queue database tables.

php artisan queue:table

Now, run migration in your terminal.

php artisan migrate

Step 4: Create Queue Job

In this step we will create new queue job So, copy below command in your termianal.

php artisan make:job SendEmailJob

As of now you will find SendEmailJob.php file in this path app/Jobs/SendEmailJob.php. So, copy below code in that location.

<?php

namespace App\Jobs;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use App\Mail\SendEmailDemo;
use Mail;

class SendEmailJob implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
    protected $send_mail;
    /**
     * Create a new job instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($send_mail)
    {
        $this->send_mail = $send_mail;
    }

    /**
     * Execute the job.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $email = new SendEmailDemo();        
        Mail::to($this->send_mail)->send($email);
    }
}

Step 5: Test Queue Job

Now , we will test our queue job. add below code in your web.php file

Route::get('test/email', function(){
  
	$send_mail = '[email protected]';
  
    dispatch(new App\Jobs\SendEmailJob($send_mail));
  
    dd('send mail successfully !!');
});

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Now, clear config cache using below command for send mail with queue laravel 7/8.