I'm trying to send mail. I followed the Laracast tutorial for sending mail with mandrill via https://laracasts.com/lessons/laravel-and-mandrill-in-minutes I also set up an event to trigger mail to send following this Laracast tutorial https://laracasts.com/series/build-a-laravel-app-from-scratch/episodes/27
Here is my app/config/app.php file
<?php
return array(
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Debug Mode
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When your application is in debug mode, detailed error messages with
| stack traces will be shown on every error that occurs within your
| application. If disabled, a simple generic error page is shown.
|
*/
'debug' => false,
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application URL
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This URL is used by the console to properly generate URLs when using
| the Artisan command line tool. You should set this to the root of
| your application so that it is used when running Artisan tasks.
|
*/
'url' => 'http://localhost',
/*
);
My app/config/mail.php file
<?php
return array(
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mail Driver
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the
| sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout
| your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail.
|
| Supported: "smtp", "mail", "sendmail", "mailgun", "mandrill", "log"
|
*/
'driver' => 'mandrill',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your
| applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with
| the Mailgun mail service which will provide reliable deliveries.
|
*/
'host' => 'smtp.mailgun.org',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Host Port
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This is the SMTP port used by your application to deliver e-mails to
| users of the application. Like the host we have set this value to
| stay compatible with the Mailgun e-mail application by default.
|
*/
'port' => 587,
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Global "From" Address
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from
| the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is
| used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application.
|
*/
'from' => array('address' => 'admin@acme.com', 'name' => 'Acme'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| E-Mail Encryption Protocol
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when
| the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the
| transport layer security protocol should provide great security.
|
*/
'encryption' => 'tls',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Server Username
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should
| set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on
| connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one.
|
*/
'username' => null,
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SMTP Server Password
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may set the password required by your SMTP server to send out
| messages from your application. This will be given to the server on
| connection so that the application will be able to send messages.
|
*/
'password' => null,
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sendmail System Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know
| the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has
| been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems.
|
*/
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mail "Pretend"
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When this option is enabled, e-mail will not actually be sent over the
| web and will instead be written to your application's logs files so
| you may inspect the message. This is great for local development.
|
*/
'pretend' => false,
);
my app/config/services.php
<?php
return array(
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Third Party Services
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This file is for storing the credentials for third party services such
| as Stripe, Mailgun, Mandrill, and others. This file provides a sane
| default location for this type of information, allowing packages
| to have a conventional place to find your various credentials.
|
*/
'mailgun' => array(
'domain' => '',
'secret' => '',
),
'mandrill' => array(
'secret' => 'MY SECRET API KEY IS HERE',
),
'stripe' => array(
'model' => 'User',
'secret' => '',
),
);
Now when I hit the event that triggers the email to send, I check my laravel.log file and it says this
[2015-04-06 17:47:04] local.INFO: Pretending to mail message to: example@hotmail.com [] []
[2015-04-06 17:47:04] local.INFO: Acme.Registration.Events.UserRegistered was fired. [] []
It still says Pretending even though i have 'pretend' => false, in my app/config/mail.php file. The email never sends. I'm using real emails (i'm just not displaying them in this post) Am I missing something here? What else can be triggering mail to be in pretend mode?
