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In your .env just specify MAIL_DRIVER=sendmail and MAIL_HOST=localhost
You may have to set MAIL_PORT=2525 as well
Nov 15, 2018
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How to send email with Laravel using sendmail?
I am running a Linux machine with configured sendmail that send email by simply executing a mail() function. How could I take advantage of the Laravel mail functionality using sendmail?
For example this works just fine (no need to specify host, username...):
<?php
$from = "[email protected]";
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Checking PHP mail";
$message = "PHP mail works just fine";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message, $headers);
echo "The email message was sent.";
?>
I looked into config/mail.php and it asked for driver, host, port, username, password - but those things are already configured in sendmail.
Can I just specify the driver to be sendmail and leave username, host, password blank since sendmail takes care of that stuff already?
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@martinzeltin Laravel is configured to look for mail credentials file location in the config/mail.php. It actually will grab the credentials from your .env file. To use a gmail account to send mail through Laravel, set your mail.php file to look like this:
<?php
return [
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mail Driver
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the
| sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout
| your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail.
|
| Supported: "smtp", "sendmail", "mailgun", "mandrill", "ses",
| "sparkpost", "log", "array"
|
*/
'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'stmp'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your
| applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with
| the Mailgun mail service which will provide reliable deliveries.
|
*/
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Port
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the SMTP port used by your application to deliver e-mails to
| users of the application. Like the host we have set this value to
| stay compatible with the Mailgun e-mail application by default.
|
*/
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Global "From" Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from
| the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is
| used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application.
|
*/
'from' => [
'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', '[email protected]'),
'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
],
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| E-Mail Encryption Protocol
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when
| the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the
| transport layer security protocol should provide great security.
|
*/
'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Server Username
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should
| set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on
| connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one.
|
*/
'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sendmail System Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know
| the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has
| been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems.
|
*/
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Markdown Mail Settings
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| If you are using Markdown based email rendering, you may configure your
| theme and component paths here, allowing you to customize the design
| of the emails. Or, you may simply stick with the Laravel defaults!
|
*/
'markdown' => [
'theme' => 'default',
'paths' => [
resource_path('views/vendor/mail'),
],
],
];
and then set the following on your .env file:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.googlemail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=yourPassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
Then you can simple import the mail facade and call the MAIL to send an email.
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
Mail::to($request->input('inputEmail'))->queue(new ClientCreated($user));
Please note: ClientCreated would be a markdown email and $user is the data required for that markdown.
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