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
◦ 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/mas
ter/app/config/queue.php
 Basic Mail Configuration for Laravel
[Not a Must]
◦ https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/mas
ter/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

Reference
 http://b.z19r.com/post/sending-email-
with-laravel-sendgrid-beanstalkd-and-
go