How to check if email are sent correctly in a Laravel Project

You can you use tinker to check if email are sent correctly in a Laravel project.

Launch Tinker using this command

php artisan tinker

The shell is launched

Psy Shell v0.12.9 (PHP 8.2.4 — cli) by Justin Hileman
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Now add the following code:

Mail::raw('This is an email test! Please confirm receipt.', function ($message) {
	$message->to('[email protected]')
	 ->subject('Laravel email test');
});

If it's OK, a message like this will be shown:

= Illuminate\Mail\SentMessage {#7055}

Otherwise an exception will rise with the reason. ex:

 Symfony\Component\Mailer\Exception\TransportException:Connection could not be established with host "135.45.15.32:25": stream_socket_client(): Unable to connect to 135.45.15.32:25