Laravel Mail Tutorial: Sending Emails for Beginners

Learn to send emails in Laravel. Master SMTP configuration, Mailable classes, Markdown templates,and background queueing for scalable application notifications.

Sending emails — welcome messages, order confirmations, password resets — is a core feature of most web apps. This tutorial shows you how to set up and send emails in Laravel. Step 1: Configure Your Mail Driver In your .env file: MAIL MAILER=smtp MAIL HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io MAIL PORT=2525 MAIL USERNAME=your username MAIL PASSWORD=your password MAIL ENCRYPTION=tls MAIL FROM ADDRESS=hello@example.com MAIL FROM NAME="${APP NAME}" For local development, use Mailtrap or Mailpit — they catch emails in a safe testing inbox instead of sending them to real addresses. Step 2: Create a Mailable Class php artisan make:mail OrderConfirmation This creates app/Mail/OrderConfirmation.php . Step 3: Build the Mailable namespace App\Mail; use App\Models\Order; use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable; use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; class OrderConfirmation extends Mailable { use SerializesModels; public funct...

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