Error in send email (Mail) later laravel 5? - php

Question

I use the instructions https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/mail
to send an email later than expected, but I get an error when I try to send it:
ErrorException (E_ERROR)
Only mailables may be queued. (View: ....
Please for help.
My methods to send:
public static function sent_info_email_later ($data_f, $minuts) {
$data = json_decode($data_f);
$when = now()->addMinutes($minuts);
return Mail::later($when,'emails.message', ['title' => $data->subject, 'body' => $data->body], function ($message) use ($data, $when)
{
$message->from(env('MAIL_USERNAME'), 'NETPlatform24');
if(gettype($data->to) == 'array') {
$dest_to = $data->to;
} else {
$dest_to = explode(', ', $data->to)[0];
}
$message->to($dest_to);
$message->subject($data->subject);
return true;
});
}
and calling index.php
$data = json_encode(array('to' => 'my email', 'subject' => 'This email was send 1 min after run', 'body' => 'time now'.now().'<br> time send: '.now()->addMinutes(1)));
$send_mail = \App\Http\Controllers\Backend\Auth\Mail\MailController::sent_info_email_later($data, 1);

Answer 1

I wrote this code long time ago. I hope this will help to clarify. For each Cargo I send a email using queue.
<?php
public function mails_meeting($meeting, $group, $place, $date, $message, $user)
{
$subject = "meeting " . $group;
$cargos = Cargo::where('comision_id', '=', $meeting->comision_id)->where('active', '=', '1')->get();
foreach ($cargos as $cargo) {
$mail_reciever = $cargo->asambleista->user->email;
Mail::queue('correos.comision_mail', ['group' => $group, 'place' => $place,
'date' => $date, 'message' => $message, 'user' => $user],
function ($mail) use ($subject, $mail_reciever) {
$mail->from('siarcaf#gmail.com', 'Automatic mail system');
$mail->to($mail_reciever);
$mail->subject($subject);
});
}
return 0;
}
In your_app/config/mail.php .
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
'stream' => [
'ssl' => [
'allow_self_signed' => true,
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
],
],
.env file
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=your_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=your_conf

Answer 2

The error you're getting (and the docs) indicate that the second argument passed to the later method must be an instance of Illuminate\Mail\Mailable.
Where you currently have the string 'emails.message', you will need to replace this with an instance of Mailable that represents the email message that you're trying to send.
For example, create this file in /app/Mail (create the folder if it doesn't exist):
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
class InfoEmail extends Mailable implements ShouldQueue
{
public $subject;
public $body;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($subject, $body)
{
$this->subject = $subject;
$this->body = $body;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->from(env('MAIL_USERNAME'), 'NETPlatform24')
->subject($this->subject)
->view('emails.message', ['title' => $this->subject, 'body' => $this->body]);
}
}
This assumes that 'emails.message' is the view file you intend to use for this email, located at /resources/views/emails/message.blade.php relative to your project's root. I'd actually recommend changing this to something a bit more descriptive.
You'll then need to change your sent_info_email_later method to something like this:
public static function sent_info_email_later ($data_f, $minuts) {
$data = json_decode($data_f);
$when = now()->addMinutes($minuts);
$recipients = is_array($data->to) ? $data->to : explode(', ', $data->to);
$recipients = array_filter(array_map('trim', $recipients));
$first_recipient = array_shift($recipients);
return Mail::to($first_recipient)
->cc($recipients)
->later($when, new InfoEmail($data->subject, $data->body));
}
I've taken the liberty of tidying up your recipients by extracting out the first recipient for the to and moving the rest to cc as this may play better with more email service providers.
Hope this helps!