Locale in Jobs, Mailables and Notifications

The SetLocale middleware only runs during HTTP requests. Anywhere else (queued jobs, mailables, notifications, console commands), the application's locale is whatever the worker process has set globally, typically your fallback_locale.

This affects everything that reads App::getLocale(), not just URLs:

• route('about'): picks the wrong locale variant
• __('messages.welcome') / @lang(...) / trans_choice(...): wrong language
• Validation messages
• Carbon / date formatting ($date->translatedFormat(...), locale-aware diffs)
• Number / currency formatting via Number::currency()

Scoping the locale once at the right boundary fixes all of these together. Laravel handles this for you in two of the three common cases.

Mailables: automatic via Mail::to()->locale()

Pass the recipient's locale to the pending mail. Build, render and send all run with that locale, so any route(...), __('...'), validation or date formatting inside your mailable resolves correctly:

Mail::to($user)
    ->locale($user->locale)
    ->send(new InvoiceMail($invoice));

Notifications: automatic via the notifiable's preferred locale

If your notifiable model implements HasLocalePreference, each notification delivery runs with that locale automatically:

class User extends Model implements HasLocalePreference
{
    public function preferredLocale(): string
    {
        return $this->locale;
    }
}

Plain queued jobs: manual

There is no built-in propagation for arbitrary queued jobs. You have to scope the locale yourself; easiest by adding the Localizable trait to your job and wrapping the locale-sensitive work in $this->withLocale(...). URLs, translations, validation, dates etc. inside the closure all see the scoped locale:

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Support\Traits\Localizable;

class SendReminder implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Dispatchable, Queueable, Localizable;

    public function __construct(public User $user) {}

    public function handle(): void
    {
        $this->withLocale($this->user->locale, function () {
            $url     = route('dashboard');
            $subject = __('reminders.subject');
            // …send the reminder using $url and $subject
        });
    }
}

If your job's only job is to send a mail or notification, you don't need this trait; Mail::to()->locale() and HasLocalePreference already wrap the relevant code in withLocale(...) for you.