biegalski-llc/laravel-mailgun-webhooks

This package allows you to quick and easily integrate your Laravel application with Mailgun Webhooks thus allowing you to track the outgoing email status for each individual user. There is also an optional feature to receive alerts for specific mailgun events such as spam complaints and sending fail

v1.0.1 2021-03-22 16:50 UTC

README

This package, Laravel-Mailgun-Webhooks, has been superseded by a new and improved solution: Notification-Tracker.

Notification-Tracker offers a more robust, flexible, and maintainable way to handle webhook notifications. We strongly encourage all users to migrate to the new package.

This repository will remain available for reference, but it will no longer be actively maintained.

Thank you for your understanding.

Mailgun Webhooks for Laravel

Tracking

This package allows you to quick and easily integrate your Laravel application with Mailgun Webhooks thus allowing you to track the outgoing email status for each individual user.

  • Log when an email was delivered to a specific user
  • Log when an email failed to send to a specific user
  • etc...

This may be useful information you want to display to your end users or to a certain subset of users (Managers, Moderators, Admins, etc...).

Email Content Storage

This package will also store the content of the emails sent if you need to reference them at any point in the future. There are many use-cases for why this information is valuable.

  • Verify a customers complaint with information in the email they received a few weeks ago
  • Validate that a customer isn't altering / falsifying an email to benefit their case
  • etc...

Alerts

This package allows gives you the ability to set it up so that you receive alerts for specific things. You have the ability to turn on and off the type of notifications you want to receive.

  • Get notified when an email fails to deliver to a user
  • Get notified when a user files a spam complaint
  • etc...

Installation Instructions

Lets begin the installation. First you'll need to install the package with composer.

composer require biegalski-llc/laravel-mailgun-webhooks

Next, you will want to publish the configuration and view files.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=mailgun_webhook_config

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=mailgun_webhook_view

DotEnv Configuration Options

Below you will find various options to configure this plugin to your needs.

Options

Turn on and off certain features of this package

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_OPTIONS_DISABLE_CONTENT=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_OPTIONS_DISABLE_FLAG=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_OPTIONS_DISABLE_TAG=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_OPTIONS_DISABLE_VARIABLE=false

Notifications

Turn on and off various notifications and set who these notifications send to.

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_ALERTS_TO=
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_ALERTS_FROM_EMAIL=
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_ALERTS_FROM_NAME=

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_DELIVERED=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_OPENED=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_PERM_FAILURE=true
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_SPAM=true
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_TEMP_FAILURE=true
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_TRIGGER_UNSUBSCRIBE=true

Content Logging

Storing all content can quickly build up disk space used. Turn on and off various pieces of content to store. Only store what you need! body_html by default is true, the rest by default are false.

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_CONTENT_LOG_STRIP_HTML=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_CONTENT_LOG_STRIP_TEXT=false
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_CONTENT_LOG_BODY_HTML=true
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_CONTENT_LOG_BODY_PLAIN=false

Custom Database Connection

Storing all of these mailgun notifications in another database? Specify which database connection to use.

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_CUSTOM_DATABASE=null

User Model

By default - we reference the App\Users model to form the relationship. If you use a custom model or have made changes to the User model - you may need to add and edit these variables to your dotenv as well:

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_USER_TABLE_NAME=users
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_USER_TABLE_EMAIL=email
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_USER_TABLE_KEY=id
MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_USER_TABLE_FPQN=App\Users

Signing Key

Mailgun allows you to set an HTTP webhook signing key, which can be different from the API key value set in the MAILGUN_SECRET environment variable used to connect to the Mailgun API for sending. This is especailly useful if you use Domain level sending API keys or have rotated the HTTP Webhook signing key. Defaults to the MAILGUN_SECRET value.

MAILGUN_WEBHOOKS_SIGNING_KEY=

After you've completed the configuration - lets re-cache it:

php artisan config:cache

Now, you'll need to run the database migrations:

php artisan migrate

And, finally, you'll need to add a middleware to the route middleware group. In app\Http\Kernel.php add the following line to the routeMiddleware group:

'mailgun_webhooks' => \Biegalski\LaravelMailgunWebhooks\Middleware\ValidateMailgunWebhook::class,

You're all set! Now you just need to add the API endpoints to the webhooks in your Mailgun account.

Add Webhooks In Mailgun

  1. Login
  2. Navigate to Sending -> Webhooks
  3. Click Add Webhook button
  4. Select the appropriate Event Type and input its corresponding API endpoint. Endpoints listed below:

*Replace "https://domain.com" with your applications URL.

Usage

It starts collecting data and sending notifications after configuration is setup. You can dive deeper and extract or display this data. Usage steps for that coming soon!

Affiliations

I have no affiliation with Laravel or Mailgun. Both are just frequently used in projects I am involved in and this package fills a need across various projects.

Translations

There is currently 9 translations:

  • German
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Polish

More languages coming soon!

If you're unsure how localization works in Laravel, please reference the documentation at https://laravel.com/docs/master/localization

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.