Laravel Mail not working and php function mail() does

MAIL_DRIVER should be = "mailgun" and make sure MAIL_PRETEND=false. Also, set your appropriate MAIL_HOST

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I said that I tested "ANOTHER" app and that time the solution was to move mail driver to MAILGUN. '

This app right now needs to have the mail driver MAIL. So everything is working perfect on the test server, but on the production server there is an issue.

OK. Laravel uses SwiftMailer underneath a wrapper.

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/mail

So what exactly should be the issue and how it can be fixed so that the MAIL driver will work in the Laravel app ?

Post your relevant code for more help. It should work fine if the code is right.

So to clarify something, I did not changed anything from the localhost and test servers, so the projects is moved without any modification. The only thing I did modified was the database user and pass :)

I created a route to test the MAIL sending:

Route::get('testEmail', function ()
{

    $data = [
        'key'     => 'value'
    ];

    Mail::send('emails.test', $data, function ($message) {
        $message->from('another@email.com', 'My name');
        $message->subject('subject');
        $message->to('my@email.com');
    });

    dd(Mail::failures());
});

.env file contains MAIL_DRIVER=mail

config/mail.php file contains 'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'mail')

And the php mail() function it works perfect.

Mail::send is using the Laravel mail facade I believe. Thus, it should use php mail() if driver set to that. What mail server are you using to actually send the mail? i.e MAIL_HOST=???

I had a similar issue, Laravel was unable to send emails via 'mail' driver (MAIL_DRIVER=mail).

Removing the 'from' header (comment out // $message->from('[email protected]', 'name');) and setting all other mail related settings in my .env file to null solved the problem for me: MAIL_HOST=null MAIL_PORT=null MAIL_USERNAME=null MAIL_PASSWORD=null MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

I can confirm that @ybresson suggestion about setting all other mail related settings in my .env file to null worked for me without removing the from header.

Can i have mail using php mail() function without using any host like smtp?

Hello @iinventedtheinternet

Config that works for me :

MAIL_DRIVER=mail
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=null
MAIL_FROM_NAME=null

I already have a default [email protected] configured on my server.

Thank you guys,

Below worked for me:

MAIL_DRIVER=mail
MAIL_HOST=null
MAIL_PORT=null
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME=Example

@wesamly thanks bro, i really tired from this issue from last 3 to 4 days...this really works for me...thanks a lot again