Mailer Configuration Reference (SwiftmailerBundle)

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The SwiftmailerBundle integrates the Swiftmailer library in Symfony applications to send emails. All these options are configured under the swiftmailer key in your application configuration.

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        # displays the default config values defined by Symfony
$ php app/console config:dump-reference swiftmailer

# displays the actual config values used by your application
$ php app/console debug:config swiftmailer
    

Note

When using XML, you must use the http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer namespace and the related XSD schema is available at: http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer/swiftmailer-1.0.xsd

Configuration

url

type: string

The entire SwiftMailer configuration using a DSN-like URL format.

Example: smtp://user:pass@host:port/?timeout=60&encryption=ssl&auth_mode=login&...

transport

type: string default: smtp

The exact transport method to use to deliver emails. Valid values are:

smtp
gmail (see How to Use Gmail to Send Emails)
mail (deprecated in SwiftMailer since version 5.4.5)
sendmail
null (same as setting disable_delivery to true)

username

type: string

The username when using smtp as the transport.

password

type: string

The password when using smtp as the transport.

command

type: string default: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs

Command to be executed by sendmail transport.

host

type: string default: localhost

The host to connect to when using smtp as the transport.

port

type: string default: 25 or 465 (depending on encryption)

The port when using smtp as the transport. This defaults to 465 if encryption is ssl and 25 otherwise.

timeout

type: integer

The timeout in seconds when using smtp as the transport.

source_ip

type: string

The source IP address when using smtp as the transport.

local_domain

type: string

2.4.0

The local_domain option was introduced in SwiftMailerBundle 2.4.0.

The domain name to use in HELO command.

encryption

type: string

The encryption mode to use when using smtp as the transport. Valid values are tls, ssl, or null (indicating no encryption).

auth_mode

type: string

The authentication mode to use when using smtp as the transport. Valid values are plain, login, cram-md5, or null.

spool

For details on email spooling, see How to Spool Emails.

The method used to store spooled messages. Valid values are memory and file. A custom spool should be possible by creating a service called swiftmailer.spool.myspool and setting this value to myspool.

path

type: string default: %kernel.cache_dir%/swiftmailer/spool

When using the file spool, this is the path where the spooled messages will be stored.

sender_address

type: string

If set, all messages will be delivered with this address as the "return path" address, which is where bounced messages should go. This is handled internally by Swift Mailer's Swift_Plugins_ImpersonatePlugin class.

antiflood

threshold

type: integer default: 99

Used with Swift_Plugins_AntiFloodPlugin. This is the number of emails to send before restarting the transport.

sleep

type: integer default: 0

Used with Swift_Plugins_AntiFloodPlugin. This is the number of seconds to sleep for during a transport restart.

delivery_addresses

type: array

Note

In previous versions, this option was called delivery_address.

If set, all email messages will be sent to these addresses instead of being sent to their actual recipients. This is often useful when developing. For example, by setting this in the config_dev.yml file, you can guarantee that all emails sent during development go to one or more some specific accounts.

This uses Swift_Plugins_RedirectingPlugin. Original recipients are available on the X-Swift-To, X-Swift-Cc and X-Swift-Bcc headers.

delivery_whitelist

type: array

Used in combination with delivery_address or delivery_addresses. If set, emails matching any of these patterns will be delivered like normal, as well as being sent to delivery_address or delivery_addresses. For details, see the How to Work with Emails during Development article.

disable_delivery

type: boolean default: false

If true, the transport will automatically be set to null and no emails will actually be delivered.

logging

type: boolean default: %kernel.debug%

If true, Symfony's data collector will be activated for Swift Mailer and the information will be available in the profiler.

Tip

The following options can be set via environment variables using the %env()% syntax: url, transport, username, password, host, port, timeout, source_ip, local_domain. For details, see the How to Set external Parameters in the Service Container article.

Using Multiple Mailers

You can configure multiple mailers by grouping them under the mailers key (the default mailer is identified by the default_mailer option):

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        swiftmailer:
    default_mailer: second_mailer
    mailers:
        first_mailer:
            # ...
        second_mailer:
            # ...
    

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        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:swiftmailer="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer/swiftmailer-1.0.xsd">

    <swiftmailer:config default-mailer="second_mailer">
        <swiftmailer:mailer name="first_mailer"/>
        <swiftmailer:mailer name="second_mailer"/>
    </swiftmailer:config>
</container>
    

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        $container->loadFromExtension('swiftmailer', array(
    'default_mailer' => 'second_mailer',
    'mailers' => array(
        'first_mailer' => array(
            // ...
        ),
        'second_mailer' => array(
            // ...
        ),
    ),
));
    

Each mailer is registered as a service:

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        // ...

// returns the first mailer
$container->get('swiftmailer.mailer.first_mailer');

// also returns the second mailer since it is the default mailer
$container->get('swiftmailer.mailer');

// returns the second mailer
$container->get('swiftmailer.mailer.second_mailer');
    

Caution

When configuring multiple mailers, options must be placed under the appropriate mailer key of the configuration instead of directly under the swiftmailer key.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.

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