Set SendGrid category in Laravel's mail library

Question

I'm sending an email in Laravel via SendGrid using the configuration suggested in SendGrid's docs.

Just to provide an example of how it looks now:

Mail::send('emails.demo', $data, function($message)
{
    $message->to('jane@example.com', 'Jane Doe')->subject('This is a demo!');
});

The email itself works fine, but I'd like to add a SendGrid category. I've accomplished this in past non-Laravel projects using the addCategory() method in this repo.

My question: Is there an easy way to add a SendGrid category just using the Laravel mail library, or does it make more sense to just use the SendGrid PHP library?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '15 at 21:46

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I would just use the library, even though it isn't that pretty.

answered Oct 22 '15 at 21:46

Daniel Payne

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That's what I wound up going with. Realized I was bending over backwards just to save myself like 3 lines of code. – Ben Chamberlin Oct 22 '15 at 23:34
For those who prefer to not add a library for this feature alone, see this if you're using SMTP: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42780012/1849081 – Saneem Apr 02 '18 at 07:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 11 '21 at 11:10

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There are two different ways of doing this depending on your MAIL_MAILER (or MAIL_DRIVER in Laravel <7).

When `MAIL_DRIVER=smtp`:

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('mail')
            ->from('')
            ->subject('')
            ->withSwiftMessage(function($message) {
                $message->getHeaders()->addTextHeader(
                    'X-SMTPAPI', json_encode(['category' => 'testing category'])
                );
            });
    }

Read more about the smtp driver: https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers/sending-email/laravel#adding-a-category-or-custom-field

When `MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid`:

   use Sichikawa\LaravelSendgridDriver\SendGrid;

    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('mail')
            ->from('')
            ->subject('')
            ->sendgrid(['category' => 'testing category']);
    }

Read more about the sendgrid driver: https://github.com/s-ichikawa/laravel-sendgrid-driver

edited Aug 11 '21 at 11:10

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answered May 16 '19 at 08:25

Tycho

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Works for me. This should be the correct answer. Sendgrid now have a laravel page too. – mwal Jun 19 '19 at 16:38
Nice they added it to their documentation https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/laravel/ I had contact with sengrid to get to this solution great help from their side! – Tycho Jun 21 '19 at 09:21
Just a heads up that Laravel 9 now uses withSymfonyMessage instead of withSwiftMessage. https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/upgrade – Svenn Richard Mathisen Feb 13 '23 at 17:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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You can do this by adding an X-SMTPAPI header that contains the categories, but Laravel doesn't expose custom headers so you have to drop down to SwiftMailer directly. For an example, take a look at this thread

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

Community

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answered Oct 23 '15 at 13:52

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Set SendGrid category in Laravel's mail library

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When MAIL_DRIVER=smtp:

When MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid:

When `MAIL_DRIVER=smtp`:

When `MAIL_DRIVER=sendgrid`: