Add carbon-copy and blind carbon-copy to notification emails

[benjibee]

I'm attempting to add CC or BCC email addresses to email notifications sent out using the following code in config/simple-commerce.php

\DoubleThreeDigital\SimpleCommerce\Notifications\BackOfficeOrderPaid::class => [
    'to' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS'),
    'bcc' => '[email protected]',
]

Checking mail messages sent out in Telescope (and my inbox) it doesn't look like the additional addresses are being sent an email. I had a look over the BackOfficeOrderPaid class and the Laravel notification documentation but I don't see any reason these emails aren't being used.

[duncanmcclean]

Simple Commerce currently only supports the to option for configuring notifications, not anything else, see the code.

For cc and bcc to work there, we'll need to add support for it (so it gets passed along to the notification). It should be fairly easy to do though - I'll see if I can add it tonight if I have some free time.

[benjibee]

I looked, I promise! A class with a name like SendConfiguredNotifications should have been pretty obvious, though.

If you have a fix and think this might be useful to others, I'd be very happy to take advantage of it. Thank you 😄

[duncanmcclean]

I've just had a look into this & unfortunately it doesn't look like something we can implement in the SendConfiguredNotifications listener, we can only set the recipient that way.

In order to CC/BCC someone into an email, you'll need to override the toMail method on the notification itself. The easiest way to do this is:

1. Create a new file, app/Notifications/BackOfficeOrderPaid.php
2. Inside it, copy the contents of the BackOfficeOrderPaid notification that comes with Simple Commerce. You will need to change the namespace at the top to be App\Notifications.
3. Next, inside the toMail method, tag on the CC....

public function toMail($notifiable)
{
        return (new MailMessage)
            ->subject(__(':siteName: Order Confirmation', ['siteName' => config('app.name')]))
            ->markdown('simple-commerce::emails.customer_order_paid', [
                'order' => $this->order,
                'site' => $this->order->site(),
            ])
            ->cc('[email protected]');
}

4. Finally, replace the reference of the notification in your Simple Commerce config file with your custom class, App\Notifications\BackOfficeOrderPaid.

Hopefully that'll work for you!

[benjibee]

This works, thanks. I already had a custom class for this notification, anyway. Thanks for the quick replies!