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

the problem is the null value of MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS in .env file.

solutions 1: change the value of the MAIL_FROM_ADRESS to match your email address(don t forget to rerun your server). solution 2: keep the .env file as it was but you need to change mail.php(app/config/mail.php):

from these:

 'from' => [
    'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS','mail@test.com'),
    'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
]

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to:

'from' => [
    'address' => 'mail@test.com',
    'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
]

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