Mailroom Clerk

Adding email headers in Laravel application is quite simple. SwiftMessage can be customized using withSwiftMessage method of Mailable base class: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/mail#customizing-the-swiftmailer-message However you have to remember to do it every time you create a new “mailable” class. Some mail APIs require you to put a special header each time you send an email. In this…

In Laravel framework you can create commands and call them from php application.  One command can call another command, and another command, and so on.  But if an exception is thrown in one of the commands in this chain the whole chain breaks.  In order to avoid this problem and run each artisan command as…

Recently Beyondcode came out with a web sockets package for Laravel.  For my mailroom project I decided to add push notifications when a service receives a webhook.  This a great use case for Laravel WebSockets package.  In this article we will take a look at how to install it as a service using Docker and use…