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Easily integrate Lettermint into your Laravel application.

Requirements

PHP 8.2 or higher
Laravel 9 or higher

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require lettermint/lettermint-laravel

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="lettermint-config"

This creates a config/lettermint.php file where you can add your API token.

Configuration

Setting your API token

Add your Lettermint API token in your .env file:

LETTERMINT_TOKEN=your-lettermint-token

Or update the config/lettermint.php file as needed.

Add the transport

In your config/mail.php, set the default option to lettermint:

        'lettermint' => [
            'transport' => 'lettermint',
        ],

Add the service

In your config/services.php, add the Lettermint service:

    'lettermint' => [
        'token' => env('LETTERMINT_TOKEN'),
    ],

Using Routes

If you would like to specify the Lettermint route that should be used by a given mailer, you may add the route_id configuration option to the mailer's configuration array in your config/mail.php file:

'lettermint' => [
    'transport' => 'lettermint',
    'route_id' => env('LETTERMINT_ROUTE_ID'),
],

Multiple mailers with different routes

You can configure multiple mailers using the same Lettermint transport but with different route IDs:

// config/mail.php
'mailers' => [
    'lettermint_marketing' => [
        'transport' => 'lettermint',
        'route_id' => env('LETTERMINT_MARKETING_ROUTE_ID'),
    ],
    'lettermint_transactional' => [
        'transport' => 'lettermint',
        'route_id' => env('LETTERMINT_TRANSACTIONAL_ROUTE_ID'),
    ],
],

Then use them in your application:

Mail::mailer('lettermint_marketing')->to($user)->send(new MarketingEmail());
Mail::mailer('lettermint_transactional')->to($user)->send(new TransactionalEmail());

Idempotency Support

The Lettermint Laravel driver prevents duplicate email sends by using idempotency keys. This is especially useful when emails are sent from queued jobs that might be retried.

Configuration Options

You can configure idempotency behavior per mailer in your config/mail.php:

'mailers' => [
    'lettermint' => [
        'transport' => 'lettermint',
        'idempotency' => true, // Enable automatic content-based idempotency
        'idempotency_window' => 86400, // Window in seconds (default: 24 hours)
    ],
    'lettermint_marketing' => [
        'transport' => 'lettermint',
        'route_id' => 'marketing',
        'idempotency' => false, // Disable automatic idempotency
    ],
],

Idempotency Options:

idempotency: Enable/disable automatic content-based idempotency
- true: Generates idempotency keys based on email content
- false (default): Disables automatic idempotency (user headers still work)
idempotency_window: Time window in seconds for deduplication
- Default: 86400 (24 hours to match Lettermint API retention)
- Set to match your needs (e.g., 3600 for 1 hour, 300 for 5 minutes)
- When set to 86400 or higher, emails with identical content are permanently deduplicated within the API retention period

Automatic Idempotency

When idempotency is true, the driver generates a unique key based on:

Email subject, recipients (to, cc, bcc), and content
Sender address (to differentiate between different sending contexts)
Time window (if less than 24 hours)

This ensures:

Identical emails are only sent once within the configured time window
Retried queue jobs won't create duplicate emails
Different emails or the same email after the time window will be sent normally

Custom Idempotency Keys

You can override any configuration by setting a custom idempotency key in the email headers:

Mail::send('emails.welcome', $data, function ($message) {
    $message->to('user@example.com')
        ->subject('Welcome!')
        ->getHeaders()->addTextHeader('Idempotency-Key', 'welcome-user-123');
});

Priority order (highest to lowest):

Idempotency-Key header in the email (always respected, overrides any config)
Automatic Message-ID (if idempotency is true)
No idempotency (if idempotency is false)

Important: The idempotency: false configuration only disables automatic idempotency. User-provided Idempotency-Key headers are always respected, giving users full control on a per-email basis.

Tags and Metadata

The Lettermint Laravel driver supports adding tags and metadata to your emails for better organization, tracking, and analytics.

Using Tags

Tags help you categorize and filter your emails in the Lettermint dashboard. You can add tags using Laravel's native mailable methods:

Method 1: Using Laravel's tag() method (Recommended)

use App\Mail\WelcomeEmail;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

Mail::send((new WelcomeEmail($user))
    ->tag('onboarding')
);

Method 2: Using the envelope method in your Mailable

use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Envelope;

class WelcomeEmail extends Mailable
{
    public function envelope(): Envelope
    {
        return new Envelope(
            subject: 'Welcome to our platform!',
            tags: ['onboarding'], // Only one tag is allowed
        );
    }
}

Method 3: Using custom header (backward compatibility)

To minimise confusion with the way of tagging emails sent via the SMTP relay, the Lettermint Laravel driver also supports the X-LM-Tag header. This will be converted to the TagHeader envelope method automatically.

use Illuminate\Mail\Mailables\Headers;

class WelcomeEmail extends Mailable
{
    public function headers(): Headers
    {
        return new Headers(
            text: [
                'X-LM-Tag' => 'onboarding',
            ],
        );
    }
}

Using Metadata

Metadata allows you to attach custom key-value pairs to your emails for enhanced tracking and analytics:

Method 1: Using Laravel's metadata() method (Recommended)

Mail::send((new OrderConfirmation($order))
    ->metadata('order_id', $order->id)
    ->metadata('customer_id', $order->customer_id)
);

Method 2: Using the envelope method

public function envelope(): Envelope
{
    return new Envelope(
        subject: 'Order Confirmation',
        metadata: [
            'order_id' => $this->order->id,
            'customer_id' => $this->order->customer_id,
            'order_total' => $this->order->total,
        ],
    );
}

Combining Tags and Metadata

You can use both tags and metadata together:

Mail::send((new OrderShipped($order))
    ->tag('transactional')
    ->metadata('order_id', $order->id)
    ->metadata('tracking_number', $order->tracking_number)
);

Or in your mailable:

public function envelope(): Envelope
{
    return new Envelope(
        subject: 'Your order has shipped!',
        tags: ['transactional', 'shipping'],
        metadata: [
            'order_id' => $this->order->id,
            'tracking_number' => $this->order->tracking_number,
            'carrier' => $this->order->carrier,
        ],
    );
}

Note on Compatibility

The driver supports Laravel's native tag() and metadata() methods (Laravel 9+)
The X-LM-Tag header is supported for backward compatibility
When both TagHeader and X-LM-Tag are present, the TagHeader takes precedence

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

License

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

lettermint / lettermint-laravel

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