Laravel Mail - Laravel 9 Send Email Tutorial Example

Sovary June 15, 2022 10.54K
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You have build a web application sometimes you don't want go to your email web interface in purpose just to send notify or delivery your article posts or products to clients. It would better if we can integrated sending email from web application directly.

In Laravel Framework provide Mail class that allow to send email from web app. We are required only configuration and add a few settings to activate this feature.

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This article will guide you how to send a email using SMTP and understand the concept of Laravel 9 Send Mail Using Gmail SMTP Server.

How to Send Mail in Laravel

Following the steps below to completed the task

Step 1 - Install Laravel App
Step 2 - Configuration SMTP
Step 3 - Create Mailable Class
Step 4 - Add View (Blade File)
Step 5 - Create Controller
Step 6 - Adding Route
Step 7 - Run Laravel App

Step 1 - Install Laravel App

Suppose you have installed Laravel framework. Read this to know how to install Laravel project.

Step 2 - Configuration SMTP

We required an email come with credential information (email & password) and update those info to the .env file. You may face problem since Google Gmail has annouced turn off less secured app. Read detail for solve that problem

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your_gmail@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_app_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="your_gmail@gmail.com"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Also Read : Laravel 9 Login Multiple Roles using Custom Middleware

Step 3 - Create Mailable Class

We are going to create a mail class to send email out, so in this section we will run artisan command to generate a MailNotify class whihc is extend from mailable class.

php artisan make:mail MailNotify

After that it will generated a file and update below code.

Open file app -> Mail -> MailNotify.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Mail;
  
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
  
class MailNotify extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
  
    public $data=[];
  
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($data)
    {
        $this->data= $data;
    }
  
    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->from('example@cambotutorial.com', 'Cambo Tutorial')
        ->subject($this->data["subject"])
                    ->view('emails.subscribe')->with("data",$this->data);
    }
}

This step we will pass data throug constructor class, so that we can pass those data in blade file by with("data",$this->data)

Step 4 - Add View (Blade File)

We have pass data to blade file in MailNotify class, but we are not create the view file yet. Now let's create blade view file under directory emails

Create file resources -> views -> emails -> subscribe.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Cambo Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Welcome Cambotutorial Mail</h1>
    <p>{{ $data['body'] }}</p>
</body>
</html>

Step 5 - Create Controller

Now we are going to create controller named MailController. With index() function where we write code for sending email and pass data to Mailable class which is we have created at moment. Following command to create controller and update code below.

php artisan make:controller MailController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> MailController.php

<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Mail;
use App\Mail\MailNotify;

class MailController extends Controller
{
     
  public function index()
  {
    $data = [
      "subject"=>"Cambo Tutorial Mail",
      "body"=>"Hello friends, Welcome to Cambo Tutorial Mail Delivery!"
      ];
    // MailNotify class that is extend from Mailable class.
    try
    {
      Mail::to('receiver@example.com')->send(new MailNotify($data));
      return response()->json(['Great! Successfully send in your mail']);
    }
    catch(Exception $e)
    {
      return response()->json(['Sorry! Please try again latter']);
    }
  } 
}

Step 6 - Adding Route

In Laravel application, Route is a file that contain instruction where URL is point to which Controller and function to run and pass to where blade file.

Open file routes -> web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\MailController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('/sendmail', [MailController::class, 'index']);

Step 7 - Run Laravel App

Finally, we ready to run artisan command. We are going start the Laravel server with following command.

php artisan serve

Go to URL http://localhost:8000/sendmail will perform sending to your email.

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Hope it would help have a nice day.

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