How to check mail is sent or not in laravel? - php

Question

I'm currently working on laravel mail. I've sending email structure with attachment like this:
$document = Document::find($request->document_id);
Mail::send('email.senddocs', array('project'=>$document->project->name,'type'=>$document->documentType->type), function($message) use($request,$document){
$file_name = public_path().'/documents/'.$document->project->p_key.'/'.$document->file_name;
$message->from('us#example.com', 'DDMS');
$message->to($request->email);
$message->attach($file_name);
});
I've already visited here. But, the process over there always returning success.
What I actually want is to know if mail is send or not. In my case, Mail sending can fail due to fake email like akdjbaksdjf#jhbasdhadfs.com or by some other errors occurred.
How can I know mail is sent or not ?
Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

This questions is asked several times here:
Laravel 5 - check if mail is send
You can use the failure method for this:
if( count(Mail::failures()) > 0 ) {
foreach(Mail::failures as $email_address) {
echo "$email_address <br />";
}
} else {
echo "Mail sent successfully!";
}
This only checks if a email was send. You can not handle not existing email adresses with this method.
You can use mailgun for this problem for example.
Another way is to use a php class which connects to a smtp server, and will check.
PHP class:
https://www.phpclasses.org/package/6650-PHP-Check-if-an-e-mail-is-valid-using-SMTP.html
Some Informationen of checking email adresses: How to check if an email address exists without sending an email?