Laravel Mail Log Channel

A service provider to add support for logging via email using Laravels built-in mail provider.

This package is a fork of laravel-log-mailer by Steve Porter.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Configuration

Installation

You can install this package via composer using this commande:

composer require shaffe/laravel-mail-log-channel

Laravel version compatibility

Laravel	Package
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	^2.0
5.6.x	^1.0

The package will automatically register itself if you use Laravel.

For usage with Lumen, add the service provider in bootstrap/app.php.

$app->register(Shaffe\MailLogChannel\MailLogChannelServiceProvider::class);

Configuration

To ensure all unhandled exceptions are mailed:

1. create a mail logging channel in config/logging.php,
2. add this mail channel to your current logging stack,
3. add a LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS to your .env file to define the recipient.

You can specify multiple channels and individually change the recipients, the subject and the email template.

'channels' => [
    'stack' => [
        'driver' => 'stack',
        // 2. Add mail to the stack:
        'channels' => ['single', 'mail'],
    ],

    // ...

    // 1. Create a mail logging channel:
    'mail' => [
        'driver' => 'mail',
        'level' => env('LOG_MAIL_LEVEL', 'notice'),

        // Specify mail recipient
        'to' => [
            [
                'address' => env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS'),
                'name' => 'Error',
            ],
        ],

        'from' => [
            // Defaults to config('mail.from.address')
            'address' => env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS'),
            // Defaults to config('mail.from.name')
            'name' => 'Errors'
        ],

        // Optionally overwrite the subject format pattern
        // 'subject_format' => env('LOG_MAIL_SUBJECT_FORMAT', '[%datetime%] %level_name%: %message%'),

        // Optionally overwrite the mailable template
        // Two variables are sent to the view: `string $content` and `array $records`
        // 'mailable' => NewLogMailable::class
    ],
],

Recipients configuration format

The following to config formats are supported:

• single email address:

  'to' => env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS', ''),

• array of email addresses:

  'to' => explode(',', env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS', '')),

• associative array of email => name addresses:

  'to' => [env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS', '') => 'Error'],`

• array of email and name:

  'to' => [
       [
           'address' => env('LOG_MAIL_ADDRESS', ''),
           'name' => 'Error',
       ],
   ],