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Laravel Initial Setup: Preparing for AWS SES SMTP Integration

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Welcome! In this guide, we will assist you in integrating the power of AWS SES, SMTP, and Laravel 8 Version for reliable email delivery. With easy-to-follow steps, you'll master this integration and enhance email communication efficiency. Let's get started!

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send and receive email using your own email addresses and domains.

For example, you can send marketing emails such as special offers, transactional emails such as order confirmations, and other types of correspondence such as newsletters. When you use Amazon SES to receive mail, you can develop software solutions such as email autoresponders, email unsubscribe systems, and applications that generate customer support tickets from incoming emails. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Amazon SES sends email using SMTP

Which is the most common email protocol on the internet. You can send email through Amazon SES by using a variety of SMTP-enabled programming languages and software to connect to the Amazon SES SMTP interface. This section explains how to get your Amazon SES SMTP credentials, how to send email by using the SMTP interface, and how to configure several pieces of software and mail servers to use Amazon SES for email sending. send-email-smtp

Create Mail Class

Create a new mail class using, this enables you to craft custom email templates tailored to your project's needs.

php artisan make:mail NotifyMail
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NotifyMail.php created Mail folder app/Mail

Screenshot Location NotifyMail File

namespace App\Mail;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class NotifyMail extends Mailable
{
    use Queueable, SerializesModels;

    public function __construct()
    {
    }
    public function build()
    {
        return $this->view('mail.setmail');
    }
}
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Focus on.

  • This is the declaration of the build() method, which is used to construct the email content.

  • mail.setmail is the name of the view to be used, this name points to the view located in the resources/views/mail directory, with the file name setmail.blade.php.

Create Controller

The command generates a new controller that's specifically meant to handle sending email.

php artisan make:controller ManageMail\SendEmailController
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located in the app/Http/Controllers/ManageMail directory.
Location File SendEmailController

namespace App\Http\Controllers\ManageMail;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Mail;
use App\Mail\NotifyMail;

class SendEmailController extends Controller
{
    public function index() {
          Mail::to('yadisuhar05@gmail.com')->send(new NotifyMail());
          if (Mail::failures()) {
               return response()->json(['msg' => 'Fail'], 500);
          }else{
               return response()->json(['msg' => 'Success'], 200);
          }
     }
}
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By importing these classes, you're setting up your code to utilize Laravel's email features.

  • This makes it simple to send emails using the use Mail facade and to structure the content and settings of the email you want to send by utilizing the use NotifyMail class.
  • Mail::to Sends an email to the specified email address yadisuhar05@gmail.com, The email content are defined in the NotifyMail class.

Create Route

This route is used to test email sending through the action defined within the SendEmailController.

To create a route in Laravel, you need to import the relevant controller that contains the logic for handling the route.

use App\Http\Controllers\ManageMail\SendEmailController;

Route::get('/testmail', [SendEmailController::class, 'index']);
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Create Views

Created file blade setmail.blade.php located in the resources/views/mail directory.

based on Mail Class NotifyMail.php

return $this->view('mail.setmail');

Make a simple page setmail.blade.php.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
   <title>Example Email</title>
  </head>
  <body>

   <p>AWS SES Configuration: Setting Up Email Delivery in Laravel</p>

  </body>
</html>
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Location Views File setmail.blade.php

Set MAIL SMTP .env

Screenshot .env configuration

In the next chapter, we'll configure Laravel's .env file, where we'll input the needed credentials, including the username and password, for sending emails through AWS SES SMTP. This step is key for ensuring secure and efficient email communication.

With all the prepared components.

  • mail class
  • controller
  • views
  • routes

You have a strong foundation for managing email sending in your Laravel project. However, it's important to note that actual email sending cannot be done until you've successfully configured AWS SES and SMTP, which will be covered in the next chapter.

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