How to use Gmail to send Emails

During development, instead of using a regular SMTP server to send emails, you might find using Gmail easier and more practical. The Swiftmailer bundle 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

  # app/config/config_dev.yml
  swiftmailer:
      transport: gmail
      username:  your_gmail_username
      password:  your_gmail_password
  

• XML

  <!-- app/config/config_dev.xml -->
  
  <!--
  xmlns:swiftmailer="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/swiftmailer"
  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" />
  

• PHP

  // app/config/config_dev.php
  $container->loadFromExtension('swiftmailer', array(
      'transport' => "gmail",
      'username'  => "your_gmail_username",
      'password'  => "your_gmail_password",
  ));
  

You’re done!

Note

The gmail transport is simply a shortcut that uses the smtp transport and sets encryption, auth_mode and host to work with Gmail.