How to Use Gmail to Send Emails
How to Use Gmail to Send EmailsΒΆ
During development, instead of using a regular SMTP server to send emails, you might find using Gmail easier and more practical. The SwiftmailerBundle makes it really easy.
Tip
Instead of using your regular Gmail account, it's of course recommended that you create a special account.
In the development configuration file, change the transport
setting to
gmail
and set the username
and password
to the Google credentials:
- YAML
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# app/config/config_dev.yml swiftmailer: transport: gmail username: your_gmail_username password: your_gmail_password
- XML
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<!-- app/config/config_dev.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:swiftmailer="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer/swiftmailer-1.0.xsd"> <!-- ... --> <swiftmailer:config transport="gmail" username="your_gmail_username" password="your_gmail_password" /> </container>
- PHP
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// app/config/config_dev.php $container->loadFromExtension('swiftmailer', array( 'transport' => 'gmail', 'username' => 'your_gmail_username', 'password' => 'your_gmail_password', ));
You're done!
Tip
If you are using the Symfony Standard Edition, configure the parameters in parameters.yml
:
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parameters:
# ...
mailer_transport: gmail
mailer_host: ~
mailer_user: your_gmail_username
mailer_password: your_gmail_password
|
Note
The gmail
transport is simply a shortcut that uses the smtp
transport
and sets encryption
, auth_mode
and host
to work with Gmail.
Note
Depending on your Gmail account settings, you may get authentication errors
within your app. If your Gmail account uses 2-Step-Verification, you should
generate an App password to use for your mailer_password
parameter.
You should also ensure that you allow less secure apps to access your Gmail account.
This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.