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I'm working with a Laravel 5.2 application. In my development and staging environments, I'd like to make use of the "Universal To" mail config option described in the docs. A universal to in development environments ensures all emails go to that address, instead of out to real customers/clients/whatever.
I can't work out how to specify this differently in production though. In production there should be no universal to - emails should go out to real addresses.
The standard approach of using different env() values does not seem to work. For example:
config/mail.php:
'to' => [
'address' => env('UNIVERSAL_TO', false)
],
development .env:
[email protected]
This works fine - all emails go to the specified UNIVERSAL_TO, as expected. But if I change that to what I will want in production, eg:
production .env
UNIVERSAL_TO=
(or ='', or =false, or simply omitting this completely), sending any mail fails with (in storage/laravel.log):
local.ERROR: exception 'Swift_RfcComplianceException' with message 'Address in mailbox given [] does not comply with RFC 2822, 3.6.2.' in path/to/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Mime/Headers/MailboxHeader.php:348
config/mail.php is just returning an array, so I suppose I could instead set it as a variable and then depending on environment append the 'to' to it, like so:
$return = [ ... normal mail config array ... ];
if (!\App::environment('production')) {
$return['to'] => [
'address' => '[email protected]'
];
}
return $return;
But this seems a little ... hacky. Is there a better way?
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I think this should work - it leaves config('mail.to') as null unless UNIVERSAL_TO is set.
'to' => env('UNIVERSAL_TO', false) ? [
'address' => env('UNIVERSAL_TO'),
'name' => env('UNIVERSAL_TO_NAME')
] : null,
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