Laravel email confirmation email sent or failed, Email preview and editable - email

Question

Laravel5 Currently i am facing issue unable to check the status email is sent and not even getting email failed and i am using mandrill api for sending emails
$mail = Mail::send('emails.pendingorder', $data , function($message) use ($domain, $order)
{
if ($order->other_email) {
$message->from($domain->email, $domain->website);
$message->to($order->email, $order->name)->subject('test Email ');
$message->bcc($order->other_email, $order->name)->subject('test Email ');
}else{
$message->from($domain->email, $domain->website);
$message->to($order->email, $order->name)->subject('test Email ');
}
});
if($mail){
echo 'sent';
}else{
echo 'Fail';
}
The second thing..
i created email templates in blade and i want to preview email in ckeditor if there any any chaning or modification require then i edit the content and send email. i havn't any idea how to to this :(
Its my first try with laravel email and i am totally stuck with it

Answer 1

Do you have correct configuration in config/mail.php? Remember to change pretend to false. Also, Mail::send returns void, so you will have to check status on your mandrill account.
For editing email before sending it:
create form with ckeditor
fill this form with your default template
after submitting you have email body in your request, you can pass it to your email view
If you want your email to be fully editable, instead of having email view with only one variable you can use:
Mail::raw('This will be body of your email', function($message) {
// ...
});