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Hi,
I want to attach a file which is located in my AWS s3 bucket while sending an email. But i don't want to download it into my local for attaching. I can not find any documentation regarding this in laravel, could you please help me on this.
The General accepted way is provide a download link. File attachments can get tricky with email clients and users email settings. Which case your system may end up sending more emails and pissed off users.
More so if it's a large file. Hard enough to format and add images for a pretty email :).
No one else has a better answer? I have a customer also requiring documents to be sent as attachment which is stored in AWS bucket. We are sending download links now, but customer wants it attached nevertheless.
I'm running in quite some troubles when we want to use Mailables with an attachment hosted on S3.
->addAttachment won't work as it only works with local paths. -> AddAttachmentData won't work as it crashes on json encoding when the Mailable is being queued...
Download from S3, store locally, build the email with the local attachment, send email, delete copied resource.
I found that the Mailable attachData method actually works quite nicely.
This is the solution I used:
$file = Storage::disk('s3')->get($file->file_location); $mail->attachData($file, 'file_name.pdf');
I was looking for the solution to this problem tonight and came across this thread. So let's give it a proper answer in case anyone other than me goes searching before checking the docs. As of at least 5.7, you can use attachFromStorageDisk
From the docs for 5.8:
The attachFromStorageDisk method may be used if you need to specify a storage disk other than your default disk:
/**
* Build the message.
*
* @return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->view('email.orders.shipped')
->attachFromStorageDisk('s3', '/path/to/file');
}
There is an optional third parameter for name. If not specified, it uses basename on the path. An optional fourth parameter takes an array of options.
@lindstrom This solution worked like a charm for me. Thank you so much!
public function build() {
return $this->markdown('markdown file')->attach('/path/to/file');
}
Tested with laravel 12, initially tried Attachment::fromStorageDisk('s3', $user->cv)->as('name.pdf')->withMime('application/pdf') but Attachment::fromUrl() worked for me. Note i am working with URLs saved in my database
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