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soltan's avatar

Laravel logging emails instead of actually sending them!

Hi Everyone,

I'm having a hard time figuring out what's going on ..

I had previously MAIL_DRIVER set to log but now i have changed it to mail gun and also set the 2 options (MAILGUN_DOMAIN, MAILGUN_SECRET) as specified in the documentation

but unfortunately, laravel still logging emails instead of actually sending them

I'm using laravel 5.2

Any help will be appreciated. thanks in advance

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d3xt3r's avatar

php artisan config:clear will clear the config cache if any. Give it a try and let us know.

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d3xt3r's avatar

show the env part and the config part.

soltan's avatar

Here is the part related to the mail in the .env:

MAIL_DRIVER=mailgun
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=sultan0583@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=mypassword
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAILGUN_DOMAIN=mysandbox.mailgun.org
MAILGUN_SECRET=key-mykey

soltan's avatar

And here is the config/mail.php


<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | 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",
    |            "ses", "sparkpost", "log"
    |
    */

    'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | 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' => env('MAIL_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' => env('MAIL_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' => ['address' => '[email protected]', 'name' => 'testMessage'],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | 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' => env('MAIL_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' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | 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' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | 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',

];

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soltan
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Finally, I found the solution ... I hade supervisor running to keep php artisan queue:listen working, so basically I had a process inside supervisor (queue which execute the command php artisan queue:listen), so i wen to supervisorctl and run this command

restart queue <-- (the name of the process) and everything worked fine :D

thx @d3xt3r

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