Laravel - Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [ #0]

Question

I\'m trying to send an email from Gmail using Laravel from localhost. I\'m getting this error: Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [ #0]

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Answer 1

In your .env file you will need to set the email address and password of your email account:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=test@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=testpassword

and in mail.php

 env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
    'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.mailgun.org'),
    'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
    'from' => ['address' => 'yourEmail@gmail.com', 'name' => 'Your Title'],
    'encryption' => 'tls',
    'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
    'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),
    'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
    'pretend' => false,
];

and clear the config cache with:

php artisan config:cache