Laravel 8 Send Mail using Gmail SMTP Server

By Hardik Savani May 1, 2024 Category : Laravel

I am going to show you example of laravel 8 send mail using gmail smtp. it's simple example of laravel 8 sending mail gmail. We will look at example of laravel 8 send email using google gmail. This post will give you simple example of gmail smtp send email in laravel 8.

You just need to some step to done how to send email using gmail in laravel 8.

In this tutorial, i will give you step by step instruction to send email using google gmail smtp server in laravel 8. you can create blade file design and also with dynamic information for mail layout. so let's see step by step guide and send email to your requirement.

Step 1: Make Configuration

In first step, you have to add send mail configuration with mail driver as gmail server, mail host, mail port, mail username, mail password so laravel 8 will use those sender details on email. So you can simply add as like following.

.env

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp

MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com

MAIL_PORT=587

MAIL_USERNAME=mygoogle@gmail.com

MAIL_PASSWORD=rrnnucvnqlbsl

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=mygoogle@gmail.com

MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Make sure you have to enable 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.

Step 2: Create Mail

In this step we will create mail class MyTestMail for email sending. Here we will write code for which view will call and object of user. So let's run bellow command.

php artisan make:mail MyTestMail

app/Mail/MyTestMail.php

<?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 ItSolutionStuff.com')

->view('emails.myTestMail');

}

}

Step 3: Create Blade View

In this step, we will create blade view file and write email that we want to send. now we just write some dummy text. create bellow files on "emails" folder.

resources/views/emails/myTestMail.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>ItsolutionStuff.com</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>{{ $details['title'] }}</h1>

<p>{{ $details['body'] }}</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

</body>

</html>

Step 4: Add Route

Now at last we will create "MyTestMail" for sending our test email. so let's create bellow web route for testing send email.

routes/web.php

Route::get('send-mail', function () {

$details = [

'title' => 'Mail from ItSolutionStuff.com',

'body' => 'This is for testing email using smtp'

];

\Mail::to('your_receiver_email@gmail.com')->send(new \App\Mail\MyTestMail($details));

dd("Email is Sent.");

});

Now you can run and check example.

It will send you email, let' see.

Run Project:

php artisan serve

Open Link:

http://localhost:8000/send-mail

Output:

I hope it can help you...

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