Trying to get email to work in Laravel 5

Question

Ok, let me start by saying that I'm pretty new to laravel 5. I have been looking for eternity on Google, trying to get a simple email to send, just by typing the appropriate URL with no luck. Unfortunately, the documentation I found was not so useful, and just gives a broad look (I understand that laravel 5 is new, but still disappointing haha). There is nothing unusual in what I'm trying to do, I just want it to work before I do anything else. I am trying to get this to work using gmail just now, but as soon as I get it, I will certainly try something like Mailgun. This is the code that I have now. The first is in mail.php:

return [ /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mail Driver |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP "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", "mailgun", "mandrill", "log" | */ 'driver' => env('smtp'), /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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 Mailgun mail service which will provide reliable deliveries. | */ 'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'), /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | SMTP Host Port |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | This is the SMTP port used by your application to deliver e-mails to | users of the application. Like the host we have set this value to | stay compatible with the Mailgun e-mail application by default. | */ 'port' => env('MAIL_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' => ['address' =>" [e-mail] " , 'name' => "example_name"], /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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' => env(' [e-mail] '), /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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' => env('example'), /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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 logs files so | you may inspect the message. This is great for local development. | */ 'pretend' => false, ]; 

This is on my routes:

 Route::get('test', function() { Mail::send('Email.test', function ($message) { $message->to(' [e-mail] ', 'example_name')->subject('Welcome!'); }); }); 

I also tried MailController@Sending _Email for the path. This is in my MailController:

 class MailController extends Controller{ public function Sending_Email() { $this->call('GET','Email.test'); return View('Email.test'); } } 

and my opinion is simple code:

 <html> <head> </head> <body> <h1>hey this is a test to see if my email system works</h1> </body> </html> 

This is my mistake: Missing argument 1 for Illuminate\Support\Manager::createDriver(), called in /vagrant/leonis/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Manager.php on line 89 and defined

Answer 1

You have a couple of questions. Firstly:

 'driver' => env('smtp'), 

The env method accesses your .ENV file. I assume that you do not have an "smtp" entry in your .ENV file. I would just change this to the following:

 'driver' => 'smtp', 

This should take care of the createDriver() error.

If you still have problems with the driver or you have problems with authentication on your SMTP server, do a quick configuration check at runtime:

 dd(Config::get("mail")); 

Since you have env() checking the .env parameters and then returning to the default values, it may be useful to see what the generated config looks like.

Now you still have a problem with how you call Mail::send . This is your code:

 Mail::send('Email.test', function ($message) 

And this is from the Laravel documentation :

 Mail::send('emails.welcome', ['key' => 'value'], function($message) 

Note that the second argument is an array. The callback function must be the third argument.

From the docs:

The second is the data that must be passed to the view, often as an associative array in which data items are available for presentation using the $ key.

So do something like this:

 Mail::send('Email.test', [], function ($message) { $message->to(' [e-mail] ', 'example_name')->subject('Welcome!'); }); 

Answer 2

You may need

 php artisan config:clear 

then

 php artisan config:cache