Laravel: How to Queue mails to send later - php

Question

Im trying to use the Mail::queue to send and email, but when I call this function it simple sends the mail, and the response is delayed ... I thought that the point of using Mail::queue was to queue ....
I want the response to came instantly, not having to wait for the email to be sent
for eg
Mail::queue('emails.template', $data, function($message) {
$message->to('somemail#gmail.com');
$message->subject('Notificacion');
});
return Response::json(array('error' => 0, 'message' => 'Ok'));
I want to receive the response without waiting for the mail to be sent.
How can I do that???

Answer 1

What queue driver (app/config/queue.php - 'default' param) are you using? If you're using sync, and haven't set up one of the others, then you're using the synchronous driver, which does exactly what the name says: Runs your queued task as soon as the task is created.
You need to configure an MQ server for Laravel to talk to. You can get a free iron.io account for this, and then you need to configure it, for instance:
'iron' => array(
'driver' => 'iron',
'project' => 'iron-io-project-id',
'token' => 'iron-io-queue-token',
'queue' => 'queue-name',
),
Then when you use Mail::queue() it will push the instruction to iron.io. You'll then have to have another thread listening on the queue - just run php artisan queue:listen and leave it running while messages are pushed to the queue.

Answer 2

/**
* Get all email recipients and include their user details for Mailgun's
* template tags - %recipient.userToken%
*/
private function getRecipients()
{
foreach (User::get() as $user)
{
$this->recipients[$user->email] = [
'id' => $user->id,
'userToken' => $user->user_token,
'first_name' => $user->first_name,
'last_name' => $user->last_name,
'email' => $user->email
];
}
}
private function sendEmail()
{
$subject = 'Demo Subject';
/**
* Data for the Blade template
*/
$data = [
'foo' => 'bar'
];
// Inline the CSS for the email
$inliner = new InlineEmail('emails.some-email', $data);
$content = $inliner->convert();
// Create Emails table entry for this email. Used for Mailgun webhooks
$email = Email::create(['user_id' => $this->userId, 'subject' => $subject, 'email_id' => str_random()]);
// Prepare the email addresses
$emailAddresses = array_column($this->recipients, 'email');
$this->mailgun->sendMessage('demo.org', [
"from" => 'support#demo.org',
"to" => implode(',', $emailAddresses), // Comma separated list of email addresses
"subject" => $subject,
"html" => $content, // Inlined CSS HTML from Blade
"text" => "Plain text message here",
"recipient-variables" => json_encode($this->recipients), // Required for batch sending, matches to recipient details
"v:messageId" => $email->id, // Custom variable used for webhooks
]);
}