How to listen messageSent event in laravel 5.5

You can pass data from the controller to the mailable, and then from the mailable to the listener

For example I have a model called SendOrder that I use to keep track the status of the email, so I pass this model from the controller to the listener

This is what you have to do from scratch

In your controller

Pass the model to your Mailable constructor

$send_order = SendOrder::create(['status' => 'received', 'email' => '[email protected]']);

Mail::to($receiverAddress)->send(new SendNewMail($send_order));

In the Mailable SendNewMail

Class Mailable has a method withSwiftMessage() which you can use to store variables/objects that you can access later from the listener.

We will make a constructor that pass the model to the build() method where we can execute the withSwiftMessage() to store it for later.

use App\SendOrder;

class SendNewMail extends Mailable
{
     protected $send_order;

     public function __construct( SendOrder $send_order )
     {
         $this->send_order = $send_order;
     }
     public function build()
     {
         $send_order = $this->send_order;
         $this->withSwiftMessage(function ($message) use($send_order) {
               $message->send_order = $send_order;
         });

         // Do more stuffs

     }
}

Create the listener

Register the event and listener in the file app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php

protected $listen = 
    'Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSent' => [
        'App\Listeners\LogSentMessage',
    ],
];

Now execute the command:

php artisan event:generate

This will automatically generate the new listener app\Listeners\LogSentMessage with a template code that’s connected to the built-in event Illuminate\Mail\Events\MessageSent

In your Listener LogSentMessage

You can access the model this way:

public function handle(MessageSent $event)
{
    $send_order = $event->message->send_order;
    $send_order->update(['status' => 'sent']);
}