When a new user clicks on the Sign up button of an app, he or she usually gets a confirmation email with an activation link (see examples here). This is needed to make sure that the user owns the email address entered during the sign-up. After the click on the activation link, the user is authenticated for the app.

From the user’s standpoint, the email verification process is quite simple. From the developer’s perspective, things are much trickier unless your app is built with Laravel. Those who use Laravel 5.7+ have the user email verification available out-of-the-box. For earlier releases of the framework, you can use a dedicated package to add email verification to your project. In this article, we’ll touch upon each solution you can choose. 

Many Mailtrap users create their apps with PHP and the vast majority of them choose Laravel. It is simple and in addition, is covered in-depth by documentation and tutorials. However, we still observe numerous questions on sending emails with Laravel, testing them, as well as Mailtrap configurations. We have analyzed the most popular requests on Stack Overflow, Reddit as well as Google search and in this post we will provide you with the list of answers. How to send an email with Laravel? How to send a Laravel email via Mailtrap? Why isn’t Laravel mail working? Let’s figure it out.