The process cannot be started [The system cannot find the specified path

Question

I am working on a project in Laravel 5.4 where I used the mail function i.e.

Mail::to($user->email)->send(new VerifyAccountByEmail($user)); 

but i get this error

Failed to start the process [The system cannot find the specified path.

It used to work fine, but now it starts showing me this error.

Answer 1

you should check your mail driver in config / mail.php file

Answer 2

please check the .env configuration file, especially

 MAIL_DRIVER=smtp