Laravel Mail using Swift SMTP

I've hit the same problem - except in my case my mail server is complaining about bogus HELO name used: [127.0.0.1] - which seems to be a swiftmailer default.

I cannot figure out how to call setLocalDomain() from Mail::class?

In swift mailer you can do this:

protected function sendMessage($sender_address, $sender_name, $email, $subject, $body)
    {
        $transport = (new Swift_SmtpTransport($this->host, $this->port))
            ->setUsername($this->username)
            ->setPassword($this->password);

        $mailer    = new Swift_Mailer($transport);

        $message   = (new Swift_Message($subject))
            ->setFrom($sender_address, $sender_name)
            ->setTo($email)
            ->setBody($body);


        return $mailer->send($message);
    }

Works fine.

Thanks, @twofish but I'm pretty sure myself and @leenooks are trying to send the "Laravel way" through the Mail facade. The problem is that Laravel isn't sending properly, SwiftMailer does send properly.

I found the earlier thread you both posted on before I posted mine but it didn't appear to have an answer.

I thought I might have identified my problem. My VPS didn't have a host name which was a FQDN, but I gave it one, restarted the server, and the mail was still showing HELO=[127.0.0.1].

Moreover, I stepped through the code with debug and the code in SwiftMailer IS setting a domain correctly but then somewhere else the domain isn't set correctly before sending using the facade.

If I find more I'll post but hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me sees this and responds.

@sailingbyte thanks for the long explanation. Totally agree with what you have said.

Here is how we solved the problem:

// put this before Mail::send(

$_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] = config(‘mail.host’);

// mail.host should be equal to MAIL_HOST in your .env file

I hope this helps to someone.

Hi,

After sites migrations from one server to another we have this problem too. Before, everything was ok. We are using Laravel 5.5.45 version. When I try send email via PHP mail I am getting this error "550 Bad HELO - Host impersonating domain name".

@sailingbyte and @joshuyo solutions work, but the mail is still showing HELO=[127.0.0.1] and then problem is with SPF and says that “550-SPF: is not allowed to send mail from abc.com". I have read that could be caused by duplicate information after site migration and I have to delete all traces from the previous server. However, I don't know where to find this traces.

Everything was working properly on the old server. The new server is a copy of the old one.

spf record in your DNS records say what servers are allowed to send email. This is not a Laravel issue and you should talk to whoever manages your domain name @laravel_junior

SPF record is set correctly. Anyway the problem is with Bad HELO. In HELO should be the host name instead localhost [127.0.0.1]. Where can I change helo settings? Is it possible?