Mail supports different types of backends to send email. So two steps are necessary to send an email.

• Step 1

  Create a new instance of a specific Mail-Backend with the factory() method.

• Step 2

  Send the mail using the send() method.

Mail supports three types of backends:

• mail

  Sends a mail using PHP's built-in mail() function.

• sendmail

  Sends a mail using a sendmail program.

• smtp

  Sends a mail directly connecting to a smtp server.