How to Send Mail in Laravel using Mailtrap?

November 4, 2020 | Category : Other

In this post, we will learn laravel configure mailtrap. it's simple example of laravel mailtrap integration. you can understand a concept of laravel smtp.mailtrap.io. we will help you to give example of laravel mailtrap tutorial. Here, Creating a basic example of laravel send mail using mailtrap.

follow bellow step for send mail using mailtrap in laravel 6, laravel 7 and laravel 8 application.

Laravel provide mail class to send email. you can use several drivers for sending email in laravel. you can use mailtrap, 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 using mailtrap. 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: Add Configuration

First you need to create account on mailtrap if you don't have. So click bellow link to create account:

Mailtrap Site

After creating account you will get mail configuration as mail host, mail port, mail username, mail passwor. you can see bellow screen shot:

add details from there bellow:

.env

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp

MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io

MAIL_PORT=587

MAIL_USERNAME=528a733..

MAIL_PASSWORD=73c29..

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=mygoogle@gmail.com

MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

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 HDTuto.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 HDTuto.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...