Laravel Homestead Swift Cannot send message without a sender address

Question

I get this error with stock email settings in Laravel 5.1 Homestead when I try to send a password reset mail.

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Answer 1

If you don't have access to the .env file, you can add default values to those env calls on app/config/mail.php, like this:

    'from' =>  ['address' => env('MAIL_FROM_EMAIL','do_not_reply@email.com'), 'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME','SpongeBob')],

This approach will try to get the data from the .env file, if there's nothing there, it'll default to whatever you set.