Sending Email in Laravel App Using Gmail Account

Laravel framework made sending email very easy for developers using the Mailable class. I will be using an existing Laravel 8 application. You can also follow the tutorial using other Laravel versions (6 or 7). Follow the steps below to configure your Laravel app for sending mail.

Step one: generate app password on Google account

App password is required by your application to access Gmail account via SMTP or other protocol. To create the app password:

1. Login into your Google account
2. Click on the security tab
3. Enable 2FA
4. Click on App passwords Select Mail in the app select dropdown. For device, select others and give it the name you want.
5. Click on generate Copy the generated app password.

Step two: update your application .env

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=user@gmail.com
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=user@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=App Password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Step three: send the email using the Laravel built-in Mail facade.

<?php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Routing\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;

Route::get('/sendmail', function (Request $request) {
    $ip = $request->ip();
    Mail::raw('Hi user, a new login into your account from the IP Address: '+$ip, function ($message) {
        $message->from(env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS'), env('MAIL_FROM_NAME'));
        $message->to('user@domain.com', 'User Name');
    });
});

You can read more about sending mail, adding attachments, sending mail using Laravel blade templates: visit the Laravel Mail documentation for more details.
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