Laravel 5 - check if mail is send

Question

Is there a way to be a 100% sure that the email you want to send is actually delivered (I'm not talking about an email address that doesn't exist)?

Can you do an extra check? I'm working in Larevel 5.0.

Answer 1

Are you checking Mail::failures() ?

Answer 2

If you want 100% certainty, you should use a third party API such as mailgun. Laravel supports them out of the box, and they offer in-depth tracking.

Answer 3

Mail::send(...)

And Error Reporting is

if( count(Mail::failures()) > 0 ) {

   foreach(Mail::failures as $email_address) {
       echo "$email_address <br />";
    }

} else {
    echo "Mail sent successfully!";
}