Laravel Gmail not working, “Username and Password not accepted. Learn more…”

Question

When I try to send an e-mail through my website running Laravel 4, I get this exception:

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Answer 1

I tried the same thing and got the same error. So i personally checked my gmail account and i had a message from Gmail itself letting me know that they'd blocked an access attempt to my email account.

They showed an option to disable this security setting by visiting https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps.

Things will actually be more straight forward if you visit that link already logged in into your Gmail account.