How to send mail in Laravel 8

In this article we will learn how to send mail in Laravel 8

Follow the below steps to send mail in laravel.

Step 1- Mail Configuration

In step first, we have to set mail configuration settings with mail driver in .env file like below example.

.env

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME=edu.teknowize@gmail.com  #sender email id
MAIL_PASSWORD=xyz@12                   #sender email password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=edu.teknowize@gmail.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Teknowize"             #your app name

Step 2 – Create Male Class

In second step we will create TestMail class for mail sending.

Go to your terminal and simply run this below command.

php artisan make:mail TestMail

Output

Step 3 –Make controller

Create a new MailController.php controller

php artisan make:controller MailController

app \Http \Controllers\ MailController.php

<?php  
namespace App\Http\Controllers; 
use App\Mail\TestMail;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail; 
class MailController extends Controller

{
    function send_mail(){

        $email_id = 'edu@teknowize.com';
        $msg = [
            'title' => 'Hello! from Teknowize',
            'body' => 'This is my test mail in Laravel 8'
        ];
        Mail::to($email_id)->send(new TestMail($msg));
        return' Mail send successfuly to '.$email_id ; 
    }
}

Step 4 – Create Route

routes\web.php

<?php 
use App\Http\Controllers\MailController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/  
Route::get('send_mail', [MailController::class, 'send_mail']);

Step 5 – Create message template

In this step, open your resources/views folder then create a Email folder then create mail.blade.php in Email folder.

You can also create blade page in resources/views without making any folder.

resources \views \Email \mail.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{ $msg['title'] }}</h1>
    <p>{{ $msg['body'] }}</p>
    <a href="https://www.teknowize.com/"><button style="background:blue;color:whitesmoke">Learn More</button></a>
    <p>Thank you!</p> 
</body>
</html>

Step 6- Go to gmail account security then click on the less secure app access setting. If this is On then skip this step otherwise On this setting

Step 7- open testmail.php and pass the message you have in MailController

in mail.blade.php file like below example.

app\Mail\TestMail.php

<?php 
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; 
class TestMail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;
    public $msg;
    /**
     * Create a new message instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($msg)
    {
        $this->msg = $msg;
    }
    /**
     * Build the message.
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->subject('Test Mail From Teknowize')->view('Email/mail');
    }
}

Step 8- Run php artisan serve

Result -