I have been having this issue with Laravel email with Gmail and I have checked and reviewed so many questions on Stack Overflow but none still works in my case. I am using Laravel 5.4 and Xampp.
At first I thought it was my Xampp that cannot allow sending the emails but also when I move to the live mode(hosted it on a shared hosting) still have same issues there as well
But whenever I set the configuration to use Mailtrap, it's working and I know mailtap is just a development mail server, but whenever I use the Gmail it give me error such as "Expected response code 220 but got code "", with message """
Also when I try it on live mode it still gives same error.
My configuration file has the following
.env
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com (also tried smtp.gmail.com)
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=email@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
mail.php
<?php
return [
'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
'from' => [
'address' => 'email@gmail.com',
'name' => 'Name Here',
],
'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'),
'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME', 'email@gmail.com'),
'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD', 'password'),
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
'markdown' => [
'theme' => 'default',
'paths' => [
resource_path('views/vendor/mail'),
],
],
];