How to send mail using smtp in Laravel ?

In this article, we will send mail using the PhpMailer library .

PHPMailer is perhaps the most popular open-source PHP library to send emails with. Using the below step we can send mail using this library.

Step 1: Install the PhpMailer library.

First, install phpmailer package using composer into your laravel project.

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Step 2: Use below code for send mail

    $mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer(true);
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'smtp_username';   // your email (without two step verification on)
    $mail->Password = 'smtp_password';   // your email password
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'encryption';  // TLS 
    $mail->Port = 'smtp_port';      //  587

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('from_mail');     // from_mail : this email will be recipients email 

    $mail->addAddress('receiver_email');    // receiver_email: whom you want to send mail

    // Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = 'subject' ;  // subject: email subject
    $mail->Body = view('emails.mail_template', compact('variables'));  // variables: if you want to pass variable which include data
    $mail->send();