Email: Gmail Authentication Issues

Some of the gmail accounts are protected with 2-step auth and you need app specific password. Is that the case with this?

I use Gmail to send from my app. My username is my full gmail address. I'm using port 587 and TLS.

@premsaurav How can I tell if my account requires 2-step auth?

@ChristopherRaymond I just tried port 587 with TLS encryption. I got the same error. :c

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

Also I noticed @gmail. should be @gmail.com if not already.

@premsaurav When I go to the page for App Passwords, I'm told that those settings are not available for my account.

Is there something I can do to change that?

Just tried 2-Step Verification with these settings:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp                                                             MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com                                                     MAIL_PORT=587                                                                MAIL_USERNAME=*****@gmail.com                               MAIL_PASSWORD=vxlmofygzgttimxo                                               MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

And I get the same error.

@tylernathanreed Can you share the snippet you are using to send mail and also please check is you have from parameters?

@tylernathanreed is the account managed under a Google Apps account? If so you might want to create a new Gmail account that's independent.

@premsaurav Sure. Here's the particular scenario I'm testing:

A User makes an account, and I want to send them an email to validate their email address. When a user registers, the UserHasRegistered event fires, which is picked up by the EmailValidationToken listener. The listener looks like this:

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;

use App\Events\UserHasRegistered;
use App\Mailers\AppMailer as Mailer;
use App\Support\Facades\Flash;

class EmailValidationToken
{
    /**
     * The Mailer for the Application
     *
     * @var Mailer
     */
    public $mailer;

    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     *
     * @param  Mailer $mailer
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct(Mailer $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     *
     * @param  UserHasRegistered  $event
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle(UserHasRegistered $event)
    {
        $this->mailer->sendValidationRequest($event->user);

        Flash::success('You have been sent a Validation Request to your Email Account.');
    }
}

The Mailer here is technically my AppMailer class, as seen in the use declarations. The AppMailer looks like this:

<?php

namespace App\Mailers;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;
use App\Models\User;

class AppMailer
{
    protected $mailer;
    protected $from;
    protected $to;
    protected $view;
    protected $data = [];

    public function __construct(Mailer $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

    /**
     * Delivers the View as an Email to the specified Receiver, given
     * a Sender and their Name.
     *
     * @param View  $view   The View for the Email.
     * @param array     $data   The Data for the View.
     * @param string    $to     The Email Address to send the Email to.
     * @param string    $from   The Email Address that sent the Email.
     * @param string    $name   The Name of the Person that sent the Email.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function deliver($view, $data, $to, $from = 'admin@example.com', $name = 'No-Reply')
    {
        $this->mailer->send($view, $data, function($message) use ($from, $to, $name)
        {
            $message->from($from, $name)
                    ->to($to);
        });
    }

    /**
     * Sends an Account Validation Link to the specified User.
     *
     * @param User $user The specified User.
     *
     * @return void;
     */
    public function sendValidationRequest(User $user)
    {
        $this->deliver('emails.validate', compact('user'), $user->email);
    }

    /**
     * Sends a Password Reset to the specified User.
     *
     * @param User $user The specified User.
     *
     * @return void;
     */
    public function sendPasswordResetRequest(User $user)
    {
        $this->deliver('emails.password_reset', compact('user'), $user->email);
    }
}

...and, I just figured it out. I forgot to change my template:

public function deliver($view, $data, $to, $from = 'admin@example.com', $name = 'No-Reply')

I changed this to:

public function deliver($view, $data, $to, $from = null, $name = 'No-Reply')
{
    // Resolve From Address
    if($from == null)
        $from = env('MAIL_USERNAME');

    ...
}

And it now works! Thanks guys!