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Testing Mail Functionality in Laravel

Navigate to Your Project Directory: Change to the directory where your Laravel project is located.
```
cd /path/to/your/laravel/project
```
Enter Laravel Tinker: Laravel Tinker provides an interactive REPL for your application. Use it to run commands and test functionality.
```
php artisan tinker
```
Send a Test Email: Once inside Tinker, you can use the Mail facade to send a test email. Replace [email protected] with the email address you want to send the test email to.
```
Mail::raw('Hello World!', function($msg) {
    $msg->to('[email protected]')->subject('Test Email');
});
```

Additional Tips

Configuration Check: Ensure your mail configuration is correctly set up in .env file. For example:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Testing Locally: If you’re testing locally, you might want to use a tool like Mailtrap (opens in a new tab) for catching outgoing emails without actually sending them to real addresses.
Logs and Errors: Check your Laravel log files (storage/logs/laravel.log) if you encounter issues or errors during the email sending process.

This approach is useful for quickly verifying that your email setup is working as expected within your Laravel application.

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