i have a form where visitor of my site can enter name ,email address and message, i have provided my gmail account credential in env file

//here is the ENV File Configuration

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=bcccc124444
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

and phpmailer code is below

public function sendmail($email,$name,$message) {


       //dd($email,$name,$message);
        require base_path("vendor/autoload.php");
        $mail = new PHPMailer(true);     // Passing `true` enables exceptions

        try {
 $mail->SMTPDebug =0;
        $mail->isSMTP();
        $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';             //  smtp host
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
        $mail->Username = '[email protected]';
        $mail->Password ='mypassword';
        $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                  
        $mail->Port =587;                        
        $mail->setFrom($email,$name);
        $mail->addAddress('[email protected]');
        $mail->isHTML(true);  
        $mail->Subject = 'WebQuery';
        $mail->Body =$message;
if( !$mail->send() ) {
               dd('not send');
                return back()->with("failed", "Email not sent.")->withErrors($mail->ErrorInfo);
            }
            
            else {
                dd('send');
                return back()->with("success", "Email has been sent.");
            }

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            dd($e);
             return back()->with('error','Message could not be sent.');
        }
    }

why i get all the time email from [email protected] why not from email which visitor enter in form how to customize the email function and env in laravel 8

CodePudding user response：

It's because you are forging the from address. Don't do that. It's not only a bad idea, but several large email providers (including gmail) prevent you from doing it, and will substitute your account name instead. Send such messages from your own address, and provide the submitter's address in a reply-to header. That way a recipient can hit reply and have a message go to the right place without having to forge anything.

This is also what the PHPMailer examples show you how to do.

A secondary issue is that this function will crash the second time it's called because you have an unconditional load of autoload.php, which will result in a fatal error. In a Laravel app, you should not need to load that autoloader yourself anyway; the app will take care of it for you.

CodePudding user response：

Laravel uses your default MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS unless you override it for your mail. In case you use some kind of notification or the normal mail, you can set the from field while processing the creation of your mail.

For providing more informations, you have to show your code where you generate your mail.