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Sending an email in web application is very common. Laravel provides the predefined Mail class used to send mail. We only need to use & configure it. The content of this article is very useful to understand the things that we need to send a email using SMTP.

Inside this article we will see the concept of Laravel 9 Send Mail Using Gmail SMTP Server. We will use Gmail and it’s SMTP details. Article contains classified information about the concept of sending email in laravel 9.

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Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

SMTP Configuration

To configure SMTP details, open up the file .env from application root.

We will pass mail driver as gmail server, mail host, mail port, mail username, mail password.

//..

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME="xxxyyyzzz@gmail.com"
MAIL_PASSWORD="your_password"
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="xxxyyyzzz@gmail.com"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Online Web Tutor"

//...

Make sure you have enabled google security setting form your gmail. go to Google account and click on “Account”. Once you are on the “Account” page, click on “Security“. Scroll down to the bottom and you will find “Less secure app access” settings. Set as ON.

Have a look into these images.

Create Mail Class

Inside this we will create mail class via artisan command which will be responsible for sending emails.

$ php artisan make:mail MyTestMail

Application will creates a folder with the name of Mail inside /app folder. You should see a file MyTestMail.php inside /app/Mail folder.

Open file MyTestMail.php and write this code into it.

<?php
  
namespace App\Mail;
  
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
  
class MyTestMail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
  
    public $details;
  
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($details)
    {
        $this->details = $details;
    }
  
    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->subject('Mail from Online Web Tutor')
                    ->view('emails.myTestMail');
    }
}

Create Mail Template

Let’s create a folder emails inside /resources/views folder. Inside this folder we will create a simple blade template file with following content.

Create a fie myTestMail.blade.php inside /resources/views/emails folder. Open file and write this code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Online Web Tutor</title>
</head>
<body>
  
    <h1>{{ $details['title'] }}</h1>
    <p>{{ $details['body'] }}</p>
   
    <p>Thank you</p>
</body>
</html>

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add this route and code into it.

//...

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

Route::get('send-mail', function () {
   
  $details = [
      'title' => 'Mail from Online Web Tutor',
      'body' => 'Test mail sent by Laravel 9 using SMTP.'
  ];
 
  Mail::to('send_to_email@gmail.com')->send(new \App\Mail\MyTestMail($details));
 
  dd("Email is Sent, please check your inbox.");
});

//...

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL – http://127.0.0.1:8000/send-mail

We hope this article helped you to learn about Laravel 9 Send Mail using Gmail SMTP Server in a very detailed way.

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