Composing email

Email Controller

    public function send(
        SendEmailRequest $request,
        Email $email,
        EmailBuilder $emailBuilder,
        OutgoingEmailQueue $emailQueue
    )
    {
        $from = auth()->user()->email;
        $to = collect(explode(',', $request->to));
        $subject = $request->subject;
        $content = $request->content;

        // create a unique message-id to avoid duplication
        $messageID = md5($request->to . $from . $subject . time());

        $email->import([
            'to' => $to,
            'cc' => collect([]),
            'envelope' => ['to' => $to, 'cc' => collect([])],
            'from' => $from,
            'subject' => $subject,
            'raw' => $content,
            'html' => $content,
            'text' => $content,
            'attachments' => collect([]),
            'headers' => collect([
                'message-id' => $messageID,
            ])
        ]);

        $outgoing = $emailBuilder->buildOutgoingList($email);

        $emailQueue->merge($outgoing)
            ->flush();

        return back()->with('success', 'Email sent successfully.');
    }

EmailBuilder.php

    // we need to add some sort of headers for custom composing
    // so that external emails are not skipped and should be merged with reply-token emails

    protected function buildRecipientList($recipients, $buildExternal = false)
    {
        $groupedRecipients = $recipients->mapToGroups(function ($recipient) {
                // ensure only gemacademy.nz addresses are in envelope:to
                return [$this->recipientType($recipient) => $this->recipientAddress($recipient)];
        });

        $groupExternalEmails = $groupedRecipients->get('reply-token');

        // add external emails too since they haven't received any copy
        // because it has been composed
        if($buildExternals && !is_null($groupExternalEmails)) {
           $groupExternalEmails->merge( $groupedRecipients->get('external') );
        } else if($buildExternals) {
           $groupExternalEmails = $groupedRecipients->get('external');
        }


        // if there are reply-token addresses we have to replace them out all at once
        return $groupedRecipients->get('proxy', collect())
            ->push($groupExternalEmails)
            ->filter();
    }