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Send email from Laravel

Laravel Mail is the canonical interface. Providers with a maintained transport beat raw SDK use.

Queues and Mailables are the standard pattern. Most providers ship a Symfony Mailer transport that Laravel composes.

patterns

Send patterns

  • Mailable classes with markdown or blade templates.
  • Queueable Mailables for async sends.
  • Notification channels for transactional flows.
  • Webhook controllers verifying provider signatures.
pitfalls

Common mistakes

  • Forgetting ShouldQueue on Mailables in production.
  • Mailtrap-style local config left enabled in staging.
  • Webhook signature checks skipped because the route is unauthenticated.

provider picks for Laravel

  1. 01

    Postmark

    Transactional

    Maintained Laravel transport.

    100/mo developer plan · $15/mo for 10,000 emails
  2. 02

    Mailgun

    Transactional

    First-class Laravel transport.

    100/day on Foundation trial · $15/mo for 10,000 emails (Basic)
  3. 03

    SendGrid

    Transactional Marketing

    Stable transport and queue compatibility.

    60-day free trial only (permanent free tier was removed May 2025) · $19.95/mo for 50,000 emails
  4. 04

    Amazon SES

    Transactional

    Native SES driver in Laravel.

    3,000 message charges/mo free for first 12 months · $0.10 per 1,000 emails
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