How to configure Amazon SES SMTP in PHP Laravel 5?

Question

I have integrated Amazon SES in PHP Laravel5 project but i have troubled to send email's because i am getting this error,

Swift_TransportException in AbstractSmtpTransport.php line 383:
Expected response code 250 but got code "530", with message "530 Authentication required" 

Can anyone tell me how to configure Amazon SES..

Answer 1

I have added this in .env file

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=YOURHOST
MAIL_PORT=587 
MAIL_USERNAME=YOUR_USERNAME 
MAIL_PASSWORD=YOUR_Password 
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls 
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Name" 
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="[e-mail]"

for sending email I have used this.

Mail::send(['html' => 'view_name'], $data, function ($m) use ($email) {
    $m->from('[e-mail]', 'name');
    $m->to($email, $email)->subject('email subject');
});

after changing this hit this "php artisan serve " command in terminal

Answer 2

Ensure you have configured your environment variables:

like the following:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=AKIAJ3RS7BUIV7U2LCIQ
MAIL_PASSWORD=Av9/1W4ZfcinolyP+8PNvjyQk7owOxaIMUehg53/QhnH
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

I just open a terminal and wrote the following commands:

> Composer update(optional)

> php artisan queue:restart

then it should work.

You have to write to support and ask for moving out of the amazon ses sand box

hope helps

Answer 3

modify config/mail.php 's driver to ses, and check the information in config/services.php

'ses' => [
    'key' => 'your-ses-key',
    'secret' => 'your-ses-secret',
    'region' => 'ses-region',  // e.g. us-east-1
],

or add them to your .env file.