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How To Send Mail In Laravel 8 Using SMTP Gmail
Hi friends, in this tutorial we will learn how to send mail in Laravel 8 using SMTP Gmail. As we all know that email sending in any web application or in a website plays an important role that is why I am going to discuss the step-by-step process from scratch so that anyone can integrate this functionality into their application.
By default, Laravel provides various mail services like postmark, mailgun and Amazon SES, etc. These are all API-based drivers which are very faster as compared to SMTP.
We can install these drivers via the composer package manager but it is very easy to build the email integration using Gmail SMTP. In order to do so, we have to follow the below steps one by one.
Required steps to send mail in laravel 8 using mail::send laravel
Step 1:- Create a project in Laravel 8.
If you don’t know how to create a Laravel project then follow the below tutorial
Step 2:- Set up the SMTP setting for Gmail in the .env configuration file as shown below
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
