Sending Emails with SendGrid and Laravel Sayed Ahmed Computer Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh (2001) MSc. Computer Science, U of Manitoba, Canada Exploring Computing from 1996

Requirements A SendGrid Account Beanstalkd Laravel go mail worker Cloud based email delivery services http://sendgrid.com/ Beanstalkd Email queue http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/ Laravel go mail worker Laravel Mail sender using Sendgrid [as an example] https://github.com/zackkitzmiller/laravel-go-mail-worker https://github.com/zackkitzmiller/laravel-go-mail- worker/blob/master/laravel-go-mail- worker/app/commands/QueueEmailCommand.php https://github.com/zackkitzmiller/laravel-go-mail- worker/blob/master/go/src/zackkitzmiller/laravel-go-mail-worker/main.go

Must Watch Mail Queue configuration for Laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/ app/config/queue.php Basic Mail Configuration for Laravel [Not a Must] https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/ app/config/mail.php

How These All Will Work You need to queue the message in Beanstalkd You need to configure Laravel and Laravel Go Mailer for that From your code, you need to use methods to queue the message $message = "This is a queue test job. We won't really need to pass data for this demo."; Queue::push('QueueDemo', array('message' => $message)); This apparently looks like will also work Mail::queueOn('queue-name', 'emails.welcome', $data, function($message) { $message ->to('foo@example.com', 'John Smith') ->subject('Welcome!'); }); Then the GO application will send this email It’s Laravel go mail worker Then Go mailer will use SendGrid to send the mail

How These All Will Work Configuration for Go mail worker BEANSTALKD: location of the beanstalk installation (e.g. localhost:11300) SENDGRID_USER: username for sendgrid account SENDGRID_PASS: password for sendgrid account

Installation Install Go Mailer Artisan command email:send. Will do that for you Not sure yet that it will work; after working with it, I will update Though you can get the copy of the Laravel- go-mailer and use that for sure

Miscellaneous How to Download and Install Beanstalkd http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/download.html Src: git clone git://github.com/kr/beanstalkd.git Install: Mac: sudo port install beanstalkd Debian: sudo apt-get install beanstalkd Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install beanstalkd Fedora: su -c 'yum install beanstalkd' Sending emails from Laravel using Mail Servers such as SwiftMailer http://laravel.com/docs/mail Mail Queue tutorial for Laravel http://vimeo.com/64779946

Miscellaneous Beanstalkd listed as the default in Laravel- go-mailer queue config file https://github.com/zackkitzmiller/laravel-go- mail-worker/blob/master/laravel-go-mail- worker/app/config/queue.php These are the environment variables Set SENDGRID_USER, SENDGRID_PASS, and BEANSTALKD env vars Can be set in Linux profile type files Also from within PHP you can set

Environment Variables and PHP echo 'My username is ' .$_ENV["USER"] . '!'; // Example use of getenv() $ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'); putenv("UNIQID=$uniqid");

Beanstalkd Configuration File Content You can know but you will not need to work with it much for basic functionality [program:qlistener] command=php /var/www/laravel/artisan queue:listen process_name=%(program_name)s numprocs=1 numprocs_start=0 autostart=true autorestart=true startsecs=1 startretries=3 exitcodes=0,2 stopsignal=TERM stopwaitsecs=10

Beanstalkd Configuration File Content user=ubuntu redirect_stderr=false stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/qlistener-stdout.log stdout_logfile_maxbytes=50MB stdout_logfile_backups=10 stdout_capture_maxbytes=0 stdout_events_enabled=false stderr_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/qlistener-stderr.log stderr_logfile_maxbytes=50MB stderr_logfile_backups=10 stderr_capture_maxbytes=0 tderr_events_enabled=false environment=LARAVEL_ENV="production" serverurl=AUTO

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