Laravel not sending email and not giving errors

Question

I've been on a project for the past four months now and I am really pissed at what am facing with Laravel right now. It's not sending emails; I set it up to use the mail driver and put in the right code, but it seems not to work at all. Besides not working, it doesn't even give me an error!

Here is my configuration:

return array(

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mail Driver
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the
| sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout
| your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail.
|
| Supported: "smtp", "mail", "sendmail"
|
*/

'driver' => 'mail',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your
| applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with
| the Postmark mail service, which will provide reliable delivery.
|
*/

'host' => 'smtp.mailgun.org',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Port
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the SMTP port used by your application to delivery e-mails to
| users of your application. Like the host we have set this value to
| stay compatible with the Postmark e-mail application by default.
|
*/

'port' => 587,

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Global "From" Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from
| the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is
| used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application.
|
*/

'from' => array('address' => null, 'name' => null),

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| E-Mail Encryption Protocol
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when
| the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the
| transport layer security protocol should provide great security.
|
*/

'encryption' => 'tls',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Server Username
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should
| set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on
| connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one.
|
*/

'username' => null,

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Server Password
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may set the password required by your SMTP server to send out
| messages from your application. This will be given to the server on
| connection so that the application will be able to send messages.
|
*/

'password' => null,

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sendmail System Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know
| the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has
| been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems.
|
*/

'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mail "Pretend"
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When this option is enabled, e-mail will not actually be sent over the
| web and will instead be written to your application's logs files so
| you may inspect the message. This is great for local development.
|
*/

'pretend' => false,

);

Here is my PHP code for sending email:

$data["mail_message"] = "Hello!";

    Mail::send('emails.welcome', $data, function($message)
    {
        $message
            ->to('[e-mail]')
            ->from('[e-mail]')
            ->subject('TEST');
    });

Answer 1

Not a technical answer but it fixed my issue.

If your using GMAIL to check the incoming mail just make sure you check your SPAM folder.

Answer 2

It could be because you have a ".env" file, in the Laravel project root, with mail server configuration like this:

...
MAIL_DRIVER=mail
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

It seems the ".env" file just overrides "config/mail.php" file. You can just remove same lines from the ".env" file for use "config/mail.php" configuration options.

Answer 3

Go to .env file and set

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp

Or you can set driver from the config files. Go to file Laravel 4 : app/config/mail.php Laravel 5 : config/mail.php and set

'driver' => 'smtp',

You may use SMTP. Hope It will help.

Answer 4

First and foremost, go to the app/config/mail.php and change the driver to “mail”. Also put the host as blank.

Answer 5

Change the driver in your config file to 'smtp' from 'mail'. I guess that should work.

Answer 6

A solution for notifications not sent via 'mail'

https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/notifications#customizing-the-recipient

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    /**
     * Route notifications for the mail channel.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Notifications\Notification  $notification
     * @return string
     */
    public function routeNotificationForMail($notification)
    {
        return $this->email_address;
    }
}