Failed to authenticate on SMTP server error using gmail

Question

I\'m trying to set up email for my first laravel project, and was thrilled that there\'s a laracast for it: https://laracasts.com/lessons/mailers

I\'ve followed the

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I've already tried everything and nothing seemed to work until I just changed the 'host' value in config.php to:

 'host' => env('smtp.mailtrap.io'),

When I changed that it worked nicely, somehow it was using the default host " smtp.mailtrap.org" and ignoring the .env variable I was setting.

After making some test I realize that if I placed the env variable in this order it would worked as it shoulded:

MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io


MAIL_DRIVER=smtp


MAIL_PORT=2525


MAIL_USERNAME=xxxx


MAIL_PASSWORD=xxx


MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null