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I need to create a new tab in customer my dashboard using magento 2 called mymail(inbox). Any email, admin send to customer id then store also in this tab based on Gmail Inbox. Anyone know how to do this?

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Add below files into your custom module

Ex:-Namespace:- Mytest Modulename : Myemail;

  1. Create customer_account.xml into Mytest/Myemail/view/frontend/layout

    <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="customer_account_navigation">
            <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="customer-account-navigation-myemail">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">myemail/customer</argument>
                    <argument name="label" xsi:type="string"> MyEmail</argument>
                </arguments>
            </block>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
 </page>

  2. Create myemail_customer_index.xml into Mytest/Myemail/view/frontend/layout

    <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <update handle="customer_account"/>
    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="page.main.title">
            <action method="setPageTitle">
                <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">MyEmail</argument>
            </action>
         </referenceBlock>
         <referenceContainer name="content">
             <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="my_email" template="Mytest_Myemail::test.phtml">
             </block>
        </referenceContainer>
    </body>
</page>

  3. Create Index.php into Mytest/Myemail/Controller/Customer

    <?php
namespace Mytest\Myemail\Controller\Customer;

class Index extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action {

 public function execute() {

    $this->_view->loadLayout();

    $this->_view->renderLayout();
  }

}

  4. Create test.phtml into Mytest/Myemail/view/frontend/templates

    <?php // Add some code ?>

  5. Put routes.xml into folder Mytest/Myemail/etc/frontend with the following inside: 

    <?xml version="1.0"?> 
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc‌​/routes.xsd">
    <router id="standard"> 
        <route id="myemail" frontName="myemail"> 
            <module name="Mytest_Myemail" /> 
        </route> 
    </router> 
</config>
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  • You have to create also routes.xml otherwise your controller will be 404 error.:)
    – user3913802
    Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 5:28
  • @user3913802, Can you please let me know how I can create the routes.xml file for same module?
    – mageDev0688
    Commented May 15, 2017 at 11:06
  • Put routes.xml into folder Mytest/Myemail/etc/frontend with the following inside: <?xml version="1.0"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/etc/routes.xsd"> <router id="standard"> <route id="myemail" frontName="myemail"> <module name="Mytest_Myemail" /> </route> </router> </config>
    – dkorablev
    Commented May 19, 2017 at 17:18

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