How can I change SMTP details globally at runtime? - laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel 5.5. The nature of the website is a 'multisite' architecture where multiple websites/domains are run from the same codebase.
I've come across an issue when sending email. I need to change the from name and address as well as the transport (SMTP, etc) options depending on which website is being viewed. I have these details stored in a config file.
The easiest way is to just pull those details in the Controller before I call Mail::send/Mail::queue and to update them. However, this brings back 2 issues:
There is a heavy reliance on remembering to actually do that every time I send any email in the code. In short, it's not abiding by DRY.
I'd be forced to use Mail::send instead of Mail::queue, because the queue wouldn't have any idea of the config update from the time it was queued only from when it is processed .
How can I achieve what I am looking to do here in a clean way?
I thought about extending all of my 'Mailable' classes with a custom class that updates the SMTP details, but it doesn't look like you can update the SMTP/Transport information after the class is initiated; you can only update the from name and address.

Answer 1

I managed to find a way to do this.
I had my mailable class (ContactFormMailable) extend a custom class, as follows:
<?php
namespace CustomGlobal\Mail;
use CustomGlobal\Mail\CustomMailable;
use CustomGlobal\ContactForm;
class ContactFormMailable extends CustomMailable
{
public $contact_form;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct(ContactForm $contact_form)
{
$this->contact_form = $contact_form;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
$view = $this->get_custom_mail_view('contact_form', $this->contact_form);
return $this->subject('Contact Form Enquiry')
->view($view);
}
}
You'll notice I'm calling get_custom_mail_view. This is in my extended class and used to calculate the view and template I need to use for my mail, depending on the website being viewed. In here I also set the location of my config folder.
<?php
namespace CustomGlobal\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Swift_Mailer;
use Swift_SmtpTransport;
use CustomGlobal\Website;
use CustomGlobal\Territory;
class CustomMailable extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $layout_view_to_serve;
public $host_folder;
/**
* Override Mailable functionality to support per-user mail settings
*
* #param \Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer $mailer
* #return void
*/
public function send(Mailer $mailer)
{
app()->call([$this, 'build']);
$config = config($this->host_folder .'.mail');
// Set SMTP details for this host
$host = $config['host'];
$port = $config['port'];
$encryption = $config['encryption'];
$transport = new Swift_SmtpTransport( $host, $port, $encryption );
$transport->setUsername($config['username']);
$transport->setPassword($config['password']);
$mailer->setSwiftMailer(new Swift_Mailer($transport));
$mailer->send($this->buildView(), $this->buildViewData(), function ($message) use($config) {
$message->from([$config['from']['address'] => $config['from']['name']]);
$this->buildFrom($message)
->buildRecipients($message)
->buildSubject($message)
->buildAttachments($message)
->runCallbacks($message);
});
}
/**
* Calculate the template we need to serve.
* $entity can be any object but it must contain a
* $website_id and $territory_id, as that is used
* to calculate the path.
*/
public function get_custom_mail_view($view_filename, $entity)
{
if(empty($view_filename)) {
throw new Exception('The get_custom_mail_view method requires a view to be passed as parameter 1.');
}
if(empty($entity->website_id) || empty($entity->territory_id)) {
throw new Exception('The get_custom_mail_view method must be passed an object containing a website_id and territory_id value.');
}
// Get the website and territory
$website = Website::findOrFail($entity->website_id);
$territory = Territory::findOrFail($entity->territory_id);
$view_to_serve = false;
$layout_view_to_serve = false;
// Be sure to replace . with _, as Laravel doesn't play nice with dots in folder names
$host_folder = str_replace('.', '_', $website->website_domain);
$this->host_folder = $host_folder; // Used for mail config later
/***
Truncated for readability. What's in this area isn't really important to this answer.
***/
$this->layout_view_to_serve = $layout_view_to_serve;
return $view_to_serve;
}
}
It's important to remember that mail can be queued. If you do this is another way, such as setting a config at runtime, then you'll find that the process that runs the queue has no visibility/scope of your runtime config changes, and you'll end up firing out email from your default values.
I found a few answers similar to this one, which helped me out, but none of them worked completely, and some are out-dated (Swift_SmtpTransport is changed considerably since those answers).
Hopefully this helps someone else out.