Trying to get Laravel 5 email to work

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I m trying to send an email to a specified user by typing in the URL  but I m getting the following error      Swift TransportException in AbstractSmtpTransport php line 383    Expected response code 250 but got code  530   with message  530 5 7 1   Authentication required   So far I m just trying to get it to work with Gmail   How can I get this to work   This is what I have so far  mail php   lt  php     return            driver    gt  env  MAIL DRIVER    smtp             host    gt  env  MAIL HOST    smtp gmail com             port    gt  env  MAIL PORT   587            from    gt    address    gt  MyUsername gmail com     name    gt   example             encryption    gt   tls            username    gt  env  MyUsername gmail com             password    gt  env  MyPassword             sendmail    gt    usr sbin sendmail -bs            pretend    gt  false           This is what I have in the routes   Route  get  test   function         Mail  send  Email test       function   message             message- gt to  example gmail com    HisName  - gt subject  Welcome                   This is what I have in my controller   class MailController extends Controller       public function Sending Email                  this- gt call  GET   Email test            return View  Email test              And this is what is in my  env file   MAIL DRIVER smtp MAIL HOST smtp gmail com MAIL PORT 587 MAIL USERNAME MyUsername gmail com MAIL PASSWORD MyPassword

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My  env file configuration is like this for laravel 5 1  MAIL DRIVER smtp MAIL HOST smtp gmail com MAIL PORT 587 MAIL USERNAME example gmail com MAIL PASSWORD                  MAIL ENCRYPTION tls   here most important thing is that I created gmail application specific password 16 digit    I need to reveal one more thing since no luck for any of configuration  That is  whenever I changed  env file need to run this command  php artisan config cache   And this is most most most important because without this command laravel executes previous settings from it s cache  It s required me more than 10 hours to figure out

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If your results from dd Config  get  mail     are null simply use the command   php artisan config clear

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I ve had the same problem  my MAIL ENCRYPTION was tls on mail php but it was null on  env file  So I changed null to tls and it worked

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For future reference to people who come here  after you run the command that was  given in the third answer here I am using now Laravel 5 3    php artisan config cache   You may encounter this problem    ReflectionException  Class view does not exist   In that case  you need to add it back manually to your provider list under the app php file  GO-TO  app- gt config- gt app php- gt  providers    and add it  like so    Illuminate View ViewServiceProvider  class    Hope That helps someone

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You should restart the server and run this commands   php artisan cache clear php artisan view clear php artisan route clear php artisan config clear php artisan config cache   That should work

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the problem will be solved by clearing cache   php artisan config cache

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I had the same problem as you  I just got it to work   Firstly  you need to double check that the  env settings are set up correctly  Here are my settings   MAIL DRIVER smtp MAIL HOST smtp gmail com MAIL PORT 587 MAIL USERNAME yourusername MAIL PASSWORD yourpassword MAIL ENCRYPTION tls   Please make sure that your password is not between quotes      And in config mail php it has the following  without the comments    lt  php  return     driver    gt   smtp    host    gt  env  MAIL HOST    smtp gmail com     port    gt  env  MAIL PORT    587     from    gt    address    gt   yourusername    name    gt   yourname     encryption    gt  env  MAIL ENCRYPTION   tls     username    gt  env  MAIL USERNAME    username gmail com     password    gt  env  MAIL PASSWORD    password     sendmail    gt    usr sbin sendmail -bs     pretend    gt  false        Hope it works for you

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I know it s working for you now  Vantheman6 but this is what worked for me in case it s the same for someone else  I added to my  env file the details of the mail service I am using  So make sure the following details MAIL DRIVER smtp MAIL HOST smtp gmail com MAIL PORT 587 MAIL USERNAME MyUsername gmail com MAIL PASSWORD MyPassword  in the  env file are accurate  NOTE  Don t forget to restart your server after editing the  env file so it will pick the new data that you put in there  Clear config cache with below command  php artisan config cache  If you don t restart your server  the  env file will still continue to present the old mail data to the app even though you have made changes that can cause this error

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In my case  Restart the server and run php artisan config clear command

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None of the above solutions worked for me on localhost  I even allowed access from less secure apps  allowed access through display unlock captcha and set the verify peer and verify peer name to false for SSL    Eventually  I used the open source SMTP testing solution of MailHog  The steps are as follows     Download the latest version of MailHog for your OS Specify the following settings in your  env file      MAIL DRIVER smtp      MAIL HOST 127 0 0 1       MAIL PORT 1025        MAIL USERNAME testuser       MAIL PASSWORD testpwd       MAIL ENCRYPTION null       MAIL FROM ADDRESS theaddress youwant com    Run the downloaded file of MailHog Send Email Check sent email by going to localhost 8025

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You go to the Mailgun  Click Authorized Recipients  Add the email address you wish send mail to  Verify the message sent to the mail  Bravo    You re good to go

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For development purpose https   mailtrap io   provides you with all the settings that needs to be added in  env file  Eg   Host    mailtrap io Port    25 or 465 or 2525 Username    cb1d1475bc6cce Password    7a330479c15f99 Auth    PLAIN  LOGIN and CRAM-MD5 TLS     Optional   Otherwise for implementation purpose you can get the smtp credentials to be added in  env file from the mail  like gmail n all   After addition make sure to restart the server

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That simply means that your server does not have access to the SMTP Server   You can test this by doing   telnet  lt smtpServer gt   lt smtpPort gt    You should get the Access denied error   The solution is to just use another SMTP server that can be accessed by your server

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Finally I got  Just to share  there are more config than just  env  This is  env  MAIL DRIVER smtp  MAIL HOST smtp gmail com  MAIL PORT 587  MAIL USERNAME UserName gmail com  MAIL PASSWORD           MAIL ENCRYPTION tls   config mail php also need to input address  amp  name for it to work     driver    gt  env  MAIL DRIVER    smtp     host    gt  env  MAIL HOST    smtp gmail com     port    gt  env  MAIL PORT   587    from    gt    address    gt   Username gmail com     name    gt   YourName      encryption    gt  env  MAIL ENCRYPTION    tls     username    gt  env  MAIL USERNAME     password    gt  env  MAIL PASSWORD     sendmail    gt    usr sbin sendmail -bs    pretend    gt  false

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My opinion after making changes on your  env files restart your server and serve the app again  Just to be sure of the actual error  The php artisan clear and cache afterwards works pretty fine

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It happens to me also       It is because when we edit the  env file we need to restart the server  Just stop the current php artisan serve and start it once again  This will work for sure    If still not worked try doing php artisan config cache

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You are getting an authentication error because the username and password in your config file is setup wrong   Change this    username    gt  env  MyUsername gmail com     password    gt  env  MyPassword      To this    username    gt  env  MAIL USERNAME     password    gt  env  MAIL PASSWORD      The env method checks your  env file  In your  env file you call these MAIL USERNAME  so that s what you need to pass to the env method   One troubleshooting tip  add dd Config  get  mail     so that you can see the actual generated config  This will help you spot issues like this  and know exactly what information Laravel is going to try and use  So you may want to stop that in your test route temporarily to examine what you have   Route  get  test   function         dd Config  get  mail

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If you ever have the same trouble and try everything online and it doesn t work  it is probably the config cache file that is sending the wrong information  You can find it in bootstrap cache config php  Make sure the credentials are right in there  It took me a week to figure that out  I hope this will help someone someday

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