Questions about mass Email with Scheduler

I use mailgun for transactional emails (not marketing) and it works great. I use the api via the laravel extension, with my own custom mailable, and webhooks to monitor failed emails

https://github.com/Bogardo/Mailgun/

Regarding the missing image issue. It's kind of hard to say without the email itself. Does it work if you preview it in the browser?

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/mail#previewing-mailables-in-the-browser

Uhhh... I don't think making a preview will be an easy task because I don't really save any email content and my emails are notifications and not just mailables per se? I can show you what I see in my email though.

Password reset: https://i.gyazo.com/f297d5dfd7548b847972d37ebf3da2d5.png

Appointment notification via scheduler: https://i.gyazo.com/6ff4b30fc463734b07d664d96a96fa25.png

Like I said, all my emails are based on MailMessage from the default Laravel notifications boilerplate

Try changing to this (should fix the missing part of the url)

<img src='{{ url('images/sme_logo.png') }}' height='70' alt='{{ config('app.subname') }}'>

Same result unfortunately. Something has to be happening with a mail being sent via scheduler

You can try rendering it to log just before sending to see what it outputs. Or at least try putting url('images/sme_logo.png') to log.. I see no way the scheduler should be able to change this, as it uses the same config.

hmm, this is weird, Telescope is not giving me any logs about it, I just added this to the blade template, it works in local but not in production

@php
    \Log::info(url('images/sme_logo.png'));
    \Log::info(asset('images/sme_logo.png'));
@endphp

Try rewriting your config cache

php artisan config:cache

Nada, I don't think anything wants to work for me in the foreseeable future, perhaps I will have to live with the fact that only single email is coming without logo

Very strange indeed. Sadly I don't have any clever suggestions

One thing. You might want to look into embedding images. Using url will cause the recipient to have accept downloading it. If it's embedded it just loads (and perhaps your issue will be fixed as well)

It will fill a bit more, but if the image is small, it does not matter much

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/mail#inline-attachments

Alright, I'm gonna try that out later, for now I configured a mailgun account and I'm going for the most basic setup for now that is using the smtp config instead of the API or the lib you provided, changed my env file, restarted the server and for some reason my app is still sending emails through my old configuration (meaning old domain vs a new domain name that I used for mailgun specifically).

Do I need to clear some cache or something?

Yes always redo your cache when changing config

php artisan config:cache

Ok so this was actually a mistake from my part, my MAILGUN_DOMAIN and MAILGUN_SECRET were missing in my env file, once I put them with the correct information I finally got emails from the right domain

when urls are generated from events or cron jobs, laravel cannot use the request domain to set the hostname for assets. Instead, it uses the app url from config.

Personally, I use Postmark, and they are highly recommended

Hmm, that's an issue this is what I have:

APP_URL="/"
APP_EXT_URL=""
APP_EXT_URL_LINK="http://mydomain.com/"

The issue is if I put my url on APP_URL it messes with basically almost everything that is out there in the web page that is made to go back to the root page, that's why I added APP_EXT_URL and APP_EXT_URL_LINK, to not mess with these other functions.

Just to put it into context: I use APP_EXT_URL for the action button of all my emails that are not coming from my scheduler like so:

->action('Publicar Valoración', url(config('app.exturl') . route('review.confirm', $this->token, false)))

If I just use APP_URL the action will have a totally incorrect url, basically pointing to localhost

APP_EXT_URL_LINK is specific for the mail sent via scheduler and I have to use it like this:

->action('Visitar perfil del especialista', url(config('app.exturllink') . 'p/' . $this->module_title))

It is also being used for the href in my message's template logo.

So yeah, I don't know what exactly I am doing wrong but for now I came up with these workarounds to get it working in all these different situations

I always use the route helper in views and never have such issues

That's an insteresting approach, but I tried that and then I put my site url in APP_URL and yet still the logo isn't showing up, giving me exactly the same html structure when I inspect it