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Now the default smtp settings are taken from the .env file. To send a message I use the Mailable class in the controller: Mail::to(Auth::user()->email)->send(new MailToClient(......)); But i want to use smtp settings from database: Table "configs" mail_host varchar(255); mail_port varchar(255); mail_username varchar(255); mail_password varchar(255); mail_encryption varchar(255); 1mail_address varchar(255);
You can set configs at runtime by passing an associative array to the config() function. So something like this before you send the email:
$config = Config::find($id);
config(['mail.mailers.smtp.host' => $config->mail_host]);
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/configuration#accessing-configuration-values
@idew dd(config(['mail.mailers.smtp.host' => $app_config->mail_host]));
return null. I redefine the configuration in the controller
@lev89 try
config(['mail.mailers.smtp.host' => $app_config->mail_host]);
dd(config('mail.mailers.smtp.host'));
@Sinnbeck empty line
@Sinnbeck config/mail.php default: 'mailers' => [ 'smtp' => [ 'transport' => 'smtp', 'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.mailgun.org'), 'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587), 'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'), 'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'), 'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'), 'timeout' => null, 'auth_mode' => null, ],
@lev89 and you get a value if you dd the database value?
dd($app_config->mail_host);
@Sinnbeck yes
@lev89 I don't know what is going on then. It's right out of the docs https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/configuration#accessing-configuration-values
@Sinnbeck I don’t know what happened, I didn’t do anything, but it worked
I would advice against doing that, at least without encrypting the password for the smtp first. It's usually easier to get into the database than the filesystem. Unless of course, you've haven't configured your document root properly and you can access your .env from the url.
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