Laravel SparkPost Driver

Description

This package allows you to still use SparkPost as MailDriver in Laravel.

This package is inspired by: https://github.com/clarification/sparkpost-laravel-driver and updated with driver from Laravel 5.8.x

Version

Find the correct version to use in the table below:

Laravel version	Version
6.x	2.x
7.x	3.x
8.x	4.x

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require vemcogroup/laravel-sparkpost-driver

The package will automatically register its service provider.

Usage

Sparkpost API options

You can define specific [SparkPost options] (https://developers.sparkpost.com/api/transmissions/#header-request-body) like open_tracking, click_tracking, transactional

EU GDPR

You are able to use the EU endpoint for Europe GDPR compliance by setting the endpoint option or the default will be used.

SparkPost (default): https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1 SparkPost EU: https://api.eu.sparkpost.com/api/v1

Guzzle options

You are able to specify Guzzle options in the SparkPost config section guzzle.

Just add the sparkpost service to your config/services.php.

'sparkpost' => [
    'secret' => env('SPARKPOST_SECRET'),

    // optional guzzle specific configuration
    'guzzle' => [
        'verify' => true,
        'decode_content' => true,
        ...
    ],
    'options' => [
        // configure endpoint, if not default
        'endpoint' => env('SPARKPOST_ENDPOINT'),

        // optional Sparkpost API options go here
        'return_path' => '[email protected]',
        'options' => [
            'open_tracking' => false,
            'click_tracking' => false,
            'transactional' => true,
        ],
    ],
],

API Key

You will also need to add the SparkPost API Key to your environment file

SPARKPOST_SECRET=__Your_key_here__

Finally you need to set your mail driver to SparkPost. You can do this by changing the driver in config/mail.php

'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'sparkpost'),

Or by setting the environment variable MAIL_DRIVER in your .env file

MAIL_DRIVER=sparkpost

Laravel 7

If you are using a clean Laravel 7.x installation its important you add the following sparkpost config in config/mail.php mailer section.

'mailers' => [
    ...
    'sparkpost' => [
        'transport' => 'sparkpost'
    ],
    ...
],

And replace the MAIL_DRIVER from .env with MAIL_MAILER, make sure to keep the sparkpost config on config/services.php.

Helper functions

Delete supressions

sparkpost_delete_supression('[email protected]');

Validate single email address

sparkpost_check_email('[email protected]');