Send email via AWS SES using Laravel Mail class

Question

I am trying to send email using AWS SES service and the Laravel Mail class (Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail).

I would like to set to the ConfigurationSetName to be able to recieve notifications via AWS SNS.

At the moment, I am using the Laravel Mail class using SES and it is working but not the notifications.

Is there any way to do this? Or do I have to use the SesClient always to assign the ConfigurationSetName?

Answer 1

According to the AWS Documentation, you can specify the X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET header on the email.

From a Laravel perspective, the easiest way is to specify the headers to be sent right from your Mailable:

public function build()
{
    $this->markdown('emails.creditcard.added');

    $this->withSwiftMessage(function ($message) {
        $message->getHeaders()
                ->addTextHeader('X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET', '####');
    });
}

You could also do it using the Mail Facade, since it has an underlying Swift_Message instance. For example:

Mail::send('emails.creditcard.added', [], function ($message) use($user) {
    $message->to($user->email)
        ->getSwiftMessage()
        ->getHeaders()
        ->addTextHeader('X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET', '####');
});

If you want to add this header to all emails, you could also listen to the Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSending event and add the headers from there.

public function handle(MessageSending $event)
{
    $headers = $event->message->getHeaders();
    $headers->addTextHeader('X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET', '####');
}

I also verified that it works.