How to integrate Zoho SMTP Mail Configurations in Laravel?

Still, it took us an entire day to make it work. Why?
As the information was quite scattered. I find out a few things from some different places, a few from the document and that’s how it finally started to work.
In this blog, I am writing out all the difficulties I’ve faced which will help you to do this task in a few minutes.
To send the email you need to configure the following parameters-

MAIL_DRIVER
This is easy, use the default value which is SMTP.

MAIL_HOST
If you do a google search or follow the Zoho document, you see everywhere that you need to use smtp.zoho.com as a MAIL_HOST.
But here is a little catch please do check in which region your account is created. For me, the account is in the Indian region so I need to use smtp.zoho.in instead of smtp.zoho.com.

MAIL_ENCRYPTION
The mail encryption can be SSL or TLS.

MAIL_PORT
The mail port will depend on MAIL_ENCRYPTION. For SSL choose 465 and for TLS you need to set the MAIL_PORT to 587.

MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS & MAIL_USERNAME
Both parameters will have the same value. The values should be the email address of the Zoho account.

For MAIL_USERNAME, there is no information about what should be the value of this parameter. The example you'll see will provide a dummy value example@zoho.com but what you need to use is simply the email address of your Zoho account.
Ex. If I've created my account with yasmin@readybytes.in then the MAIL_USERNAME will be yasmin@readybytes.in.

MAIL_PASSWORD
At many places, you’ll find that you need to use the password of your account but you need to use an app-specific password. You’ll need to generate an App Specific address from your Zoho account dashboard
Here is the detailed procedure you need to follow to generate the App-Specific Password
App Specific Password

So here's the final look of your MAIL Configuration

If you have any queries, doubts, or improvements, Please comment.
Happy Coding!