Sending Email with Attachment in Magento 2.3.x

Some of the functionalities in Magento 2.3.x is different from previous page. The reason is that in most cases the 2.3.x framework uses Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) and almost totally refuses to applyZend Framework 1 (ZF1). So, due to this, the previous method Magento\Framework\Mail\MailMessageInterface::createAttachment() is deprecated and there is no direct method to do so. In this blog, we will see how to add attachment to emails.

To understand this process, it’s recommened to get an Idea of some of the ZF2 components such as:

• Zend\Mime\Part
• Zend\Mime\Message
• Zend\Mail\Message

As createAttachment() method is no more available, we will override Magento\Framework\Mail\Message and create a class which will implement Magento\Framework\Mail\MailMessageInterface.

In this method, we will redifine/create some methods which would be responsible for different MIME parts which would be merged later before being sent. Let’s see some of the important ones:

Message::setBodyText() Method

public function setBodyText($content)
{
    $textPart = $this->partFactory->create();

    $textPart->setContent($content)
        ->setType(Mime::TYPE_TEXT)
        ->setCharset($this->zendMessage->getEncoding());

    $this->parts[] = $textPart;

    return $this;
}

In this method, we are adding the text MIME part to the email and storing in $this->parts array.

Message::setBodyHtml() Method

public function setBodyHtml($content)
{
    $htmlPart = $this->partFactory->create();

    $htmlPart->setContent($content)
        ->setType(Mime::TYPE_HTML)
        ->setCharset($this->zendMessage->getEncoding());

    $this->parts[] = $htmlPart;

    return $this;
}

In this method, we are doing the same as above but we are setting the HTML part and storing in the same $this->parts array.

Message::setBodyAttachment() Method

public function setBodyAttachment($content, $fileName, $fileType)
{
    $attachmentPart = $this->partFactory->create();

    $attachmentPart->setContent($content)
        ->setType($fileType)
        ->setFileName($fileName)
        ->setDisposition(Mime::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT)
        ->setEncoding(Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);

    $this->parts[] = $attachmentPart;

    return $this;
}

Here we set the content of the file, then set a file type and specify its name. In addition, we set disposition. It’s necessary for the file to be treated as an attachment.

Above we’ve described all methods that help us to add mime parts to the message. But we also added to this class one more important method – Message::setPartsToBody().

Message::setPartsToBody() Method

public function setPartsToBody()
{
    $mimeMessage = $this->mimeMessageFactory->create();
    $mimeMessage->setParts($this->parts);
    $this->zendMessage->setBody($mimeMessage);

    return $this;
}

This method is used to put all the pieces together.

Now, we will create a new class TransportBuilder which will extend the actual core class Magento\Framework\Mail\Template\TransportBuilder and instead of the core class, we will be using this new class.

TransportBuilder::addAttachment() Method

public function addAttachment($content, $fileName, $fileType)
{
    $this->message->setBodyAttachment($content, $fileName, $fileType);

    return $this;
}

Now, you can call this method while sending mail as used in this file.

Further, you can find the entire module here. GitHub

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