How to Send Mail in Laravel 6?

By Hardik Savani November 5, 2023 Category : Laravel

Do you want to send email using smtp in laravel 6? if yes then i will guide you to laravel 6 send mail example using smtp driver. i will give you simple example of how to send mail in laravel 6 using Mail class. you can also use google gmail driver for sending email in laravel 6.

Laravel 6 provide mail class to send email. you can use several drivers for sending email in laravel 6. you can use smtp, Mailgun, Postmark, Amazon SES, and sendmail. you have to configure on env file what driver you want to use.

In this tutorial, i will give you step by step instruction to send email in laravel 6. 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, mail host, mail port, mail username, mail password so laravel 6 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

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\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
  
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');
    }
}

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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

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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.

I hope it can help you...

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