'From' field in Laravel 4 Mail::send()

Question

I am creating some booking system and have HTML form in which user enter his email (and other stuff). I would like to get email as if user has send it from his email address, but my Gmail always shows that I have sent it (i.e. sender email address is same as 'username' from app/config/mail.php = [email protected]).

This is Send::mail() method I am using

Mail::send('reservation-email', ['data' => $data], function($message) use ($data) {
    $message->from($data['email'], $data['name']);
    $message->to('[email protected]', 'ABC')->subject($data['subject']);
});

This is my app/config/mail.php

return array(
    'driver' => 'smtp',
    'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
    'port' => 587,
    'from' => array('address' => null, 'name' => null),
    'encryption' => 'tls',
    'username' => '[email protected]',
    'password' => 'XYZ_password',
    'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
    'pretend' => false,
);

I found out that I could use replyTo

Mail::send('reservation-email', ['data' => $data], function($message) use ($data) {
    $message->from($data['email'], $data['name']);
    $message->to('[email protected]', 'ABC')->subject($data['subject']);
    $message->replyTo($data['email'], $data['name']); // <--------------------
});

but then I do not know what is the purpose of 'from' field?

Thank you in advance!

from is used when defining and address and name to new message. replyTo is used when defining an address and name to the previous message. — gokhanakkurt

Alex Alex · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11T04:11:31

Maybe you are confuse of the purpose of 'from' and 'replyTo'.

'from' will show to your users where they received email from (It can be set in your Mail::send method in each email or in your app/config/mail.php to apply to all emails).

'replyTo' will define which address that users would send their email to when they click 'reply' button.

'From' field in Laravel 4 Mail::send()

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