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I'm trying to setup SendGrid to work with Laravel, do you need any magic trick because it wound verify.
This is the config, SendGrid provide:
Server smtp.sendgrid.net
Ports
25, 587 (for unencrypted/TLS connections)
465 (for SSL connections)
Username apikey
Password YOUR_API_KEY
What is suppose to be in apikey? Is it the name I give the api or just apikey?
Here is what I'm doing in Laravel:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=parkandfly
MAIL_PASSWORD=SG.****
parkandfly is the name of the api
apikey is whatever password they gave to you for that user. You get a username and an apikey. It has nothing to do with any names of things in your app. You'll also want to enable the encryption. https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/laravel/
On Sendgrid site, look in Settings->Api keys
I always get this in my log:
Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "parkandfly" using 2 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response. Authenticator PLAIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response.
Here is how my .env file looks like:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=parkandfly
MAIL_PASSWORD=SG.******
username needs to be apikey
password needs to be the api key you generated for your application
This worked for me, thanks @snapey !!!
I got it to send to my address but @parkandfly.is is not receiving anything.
After spending 28 hours on this issue the solution is changing the port to 2525 and it's working now. You don't need to change or encode base64.
Using the following settings.
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp[dot]sendgrid[dot]net
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=apikey
MAIL_PASSWORD=sendgrid_apikey
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=noreply@example[dot]com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
That worked for me. Changing the port number to 2525 and keep the username as 'apikey'
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