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Sending a campaign

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Before sending a campaign, ensure that the subject, HTML and email_list_id attributes are set.

A campaign can be sent with the send method.

$campaign->send();

Alternatively you can set the email list and send the campaign in one go:

$campaign->sendTo($emailList);

If you don’t want to send email to your entire list, but only to a subset of subscribers, you can use a segment.

What happens when a campaign is being sent

When you send a campaign, a job called SendCampaign job will be dispatched. This job will create a MailSend model for each of the subscribers of the list you’re sending the campaign to. A MailSend represents a mail that should be sent to one subscriber.

For each created SendMail model, a SendMailJob will be started. That job will send that actual mail. After the job has sent the mail, it will mark the SendMail as sent, by filling sent_at with the current timestamp.

You can customize on which queue the SendCampaignJob and SendMailJob jobs are dispatched in the perform_on_queue in the email-campaigns config file. We recommend the SendMailJob having its own queue because it could contain many pending jobs if you are sending a campaign to a large list of subscribers.

The SendMailJob is throttled by default so that it doesn’t overwhelm your email service with a large number of calls. Only 5 of those jobs will be handled per second. To learn more about this, read the docs on throttling sends.

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