Laravel Mail Sending with Queues

Almost every application we need mail sending functionality. In laravel mail sending functionality work out of the box. When we try to send mail it takes time depending on mail sever speed. So in this case user should wait unit mail successfully sent which is not good for user experience. That’s why we need send mail through queue. In this article we will learn who to send mail using laravel queue.

By default laravel 10 there is no queue processing table in database. We have to create queue table following the artisan command.

php artisan queue:table
php artisan migrate

after successful migration we have to change queue_connection=sync to queue_connection=database. Open your .env file and make QUEUE_CONNECTION = database

Let’s create a job for sending mail using artisan command: 

php artisan make:job ContactMailSendJob

Past bellow code.

<?php

namespace App\Jobs;

use App\Mail\MailSendExample;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

class ContactMailSendJob implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;

    public function __construct(public array $data){}

    public function handle(): void
    {
        Mail::to('rasel.laravel@gmail.com')
            ->send(new MailSendExample($this->data));
    }
}

Here MailSendExample is a laravel mailable if you don’t know about mailable please read this article

How to send mail using laravel mailable

we should dispatch this job from any controller or route let’s look.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Jobs\ContactMailSendJob;
use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class MailSendController extends Controller
{
    public function send(Request $request) : RedirectResponse
    {
        // please make validation before next line which is best prectices
        $data = [
            'name' => $request->name,
            'email' => $request->email,
            'phone' => $request->phone,
            'message' => $request->message
        ];
        dispatch(new ContactMailSendJob($data));
        return redirect()->back()->with('success','Mail has been sent successfully');
    }
}

Now everything is looks good. Let’s run queue using artisan command:

php artisan queue:work

Happy Coding.

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