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

Maybe someone is using laravel 6
Its problem is "Cannot send message without a sender address" so there is no email address to send the email in .env file

Just add sender email address

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=your_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=example@gmail.com **here**
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

I didn't change anything in the mail.php file, its work for me in laravel 6, after that run

php artisan config:cache

Answer 2

I just solved this in Laravel 7.9. I'm using mailtrap.io and I believe the issue was a missing MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls variable. This variable is not present in the mailtrap.io sample config OR the .env.example file.

Here are my .env settings:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=[found in mailtrap settings]
MAIL_PASSWORD=[found in mailtrap settings]
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=me@mydomain.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Answer 3

If you are using gmail account, settings are different now. Config .env:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=example@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=example@gmail.com

You can also ssl encryption and then following settings:

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
MAIL_PORT=465

And after setting everything run:

php artisan config:cache

You may also need to check on option "Less secure app access" on https://myaccount.google.com/security.

Answer 4

Make sure you have set the 'from' in app/config/mail.php

'from' => ['address' => 'myname@gmail.com', 'name' => 'myname']

It will fix the problem.

Answer 5

error was still occure. after settings and run commands

php artisan view:clear;
php artisan config:cache;
php artisan cache:clear;
php artisan route:cache;

check the code

\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::send('layouts.mail', [ 'content' => 'testmail'],    function ($m) use ($msg2){
$m->from('abc@gmail.com', 'ABC'); 
// this line was env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS') ; cant read from .env
$m->to('xyz@gmail.com', 'XYZ')->subject('TestMailSubject!');
...

Answer 6

Don't forgot also to clear config cache ! it was the problem where I was facing !

php artisan config:cache