Installation

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$ composer require symfony/mailer

Usage

The Mailer component has two main classes: a Transport and the Mailer itself:

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use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Mailer;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\EsmtpTransport;

$transport = new EsmtpTransport('localhost');
$mailer = new Mailer($transport);
$mailer->send($email);

The $email object is created via the Mime component.

Transport

The only transport that comes pre-installed is SMTP.

Below is the list of other popular providers with built-in support:

For example, suppose you want to use Google's Gmail SMTP server. First, install it:

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$ composer require symfony/google-mailer

Then, use the SMTP Gmail transport:

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use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Bridge\Google\Smtp\GmailTransport;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Mailer;

$transport = new GmailTransport('user', 'pass');
$mailer = new Mailer($transport);
$mailer->send($email);

Each provider provides up to 3 transports: standard SMTP, HTTP (it uses the provider's API but the body is created by the mailer component), API (it uses the full API of the provider with no control over the body creation -- features might be limited as well).

The mailer component provides a convenient way to create a transport from a DSN:

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use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport;

$transport = Transport::fromDsn($dsn);

Where $dsn depends on the provider you want to use. For plain SMTP, use smtp://user:pass@example.com or smtp://sendmail to use the sendmail binary. For third-party providers, refers to the following table:

High Availability

Symfony's mailer supports high availability via a technique called "failover" to ensure that emails are sent even if one mailer server fails .

A failover transport is configured with two or more transports joined by the || operator:

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$dsn = 'api://id@postmark || smtp://key@sendgrid';

The mailer will start using the first transport. If the sending fails, the mailer won't retry it with the other transports, but it will switch to the next transport automatically for the following deliveries.

Load Balancing

Symfony's mailer supports load balancing via a technique called "round-robin" to distribute the mailing workload across multiple transports .

A round-robin transport is configured with two or more transports joined by the && operator:

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$dsn = 'api://id@postmark && smtp://key@sendgrid'

The mailer will start using the first transport and if it fails, it will retry the same delivery with the next transports until one of them succeeds (or until all of them fail).

Sending emails asynchronously

If you want to send emails asynchronously, install the Messenger component.

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$ composer require symfony/messenger

Then, instantiate and pass a MessageBus as a second argument to Mailer:

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use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Mailer;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Messenger\MessageHandler;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Messenger\SendEmailMessage;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\SmtpEnvelope;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport;
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\HandlersLocator;
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\MessageBus;
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Middleware\HandleMessageMiddleware;
use Symfony\Component\Mime\Address;

$dsn = 'change-dsn-accordingly';

$transport = Transport::fromDsn($dsn);
$handler = new MessageHandler($transport);

$bus = new MessageBus([
    new HandleMessageMiddleware(new HandlersLocator([
        SendEmailMessage::class => [$handler],
    ])),
]);

$mailer = new Mailer($transport, $bus);
$mailer->send($email);

// you can pass an optional Envelope
$mailer->send($email, new SmtpEnvelope(
    new Address('sender@example.com'),
    [
        new Address('recipient@example.com'),
    ]
));

Learn More

To learn more about how to use the mailer component, refer to the Symfony Framework Mailer documentation.