Sending Mail using Mailgun

Here's my setting for mail gun.

in my .env file. mail settings

MAIL_DRIVER= mailgun
MAILGUN_DOMAIN = sandbox........mailgun.org
MAIL_HOST = smtp.mailgun.org
MAIL_PORT =587
MAIL_USERNAME = postmaster@sandbox..........mailgun.org
MAIL_PASSWORD = 0maigunpassword
MAILGUN_SECRET = key-...........
MAIL_FROM = ticket@sandbox..........mailgun.org
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

in my services.php

  'mailgun' => [
        'domain' => env('MAILGUN_DOMAIN'),
        'secret' => env('MAILGUN_SECRET'),
    ],

What about config/mail.php? Did you make any changes to that file?

@gmehtaster Are you trying to use Api or the smtp ?

Yes. I just call the defined variables.

'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.mailgun.org'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),

   

@premsaurav I am trying to use SMTP for now.

I know there is a different library for sending through API but haven't tried that yet.

Also, I am wondering if there is anyway to send password reset email through API.

@gmehtaster Laravel will use what ever mechanism you specify. For smtp you will have to specify

    MAIL_DRIVER=smtp // and then the username,password , host, port and encryption

If you want to use mailgun's api, the setting will be like

    MAIL_DRIVER=mailgun
    MAILGUN_DOMAIN=your-mailgun-domain
    MAILGUN_SECRET=*******
    // no other details required

Edit: I don't think you will require any additional package or library

@premsaurav

Thanks I was able to get it working on my server. Had to print env variables to see what was being used. Turned out that mail driver was set to smtp. So had to restart the app. Worked after that.

For some reason my local environment is not printing the env variables so its not working in my local environment yet.

Quick Note: If you are having an problems sending emails you may want to add the Guzzle package to your composer.json. The mailgun maildriver uses a package called Guzzle HTTP to send and recieve HTTP requests from your app. This may already be added in your composer.json, but if it is not you can add it by including "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~5.3|~6.0" in the require section of your composer.json and then run composer update.

This post has helped me a bit, so basically if you set MAIL_DRIVER=smtp it will not use API key just password, if you set MAIL_DRIVER=mailgun you have to specify again your API key in .env as well as services.php? Is that correct? If not then please can you give me an explanation someone, for me only setting it to smtp works, not tried it by setting API key in .env yet.

If you wanna use mailgun you only have to specify the

MAIL_DRIVER=mailgun
MAILGUN_DOMAIN=XY.mailgun.org
MAILGUN_SECRET=key-XYZ

in your .env file .. that should work out of the box.

At least it does for me, I use only Mailgun over the API (which is wayyy faster) :)

@Helmchen do you need to install Guzzle for this to work?

I want to use api which requires guzzle but i don't know how to go about it, my hosting server doesn't support smtp, while it works fine on my localhost, can someone please guide me on how to use guzzle with mailgun api for sending emails?

I am so new to this, and I need your help right away please.

Please someone should answer this, do i need guzzle to send api mail with mailgun or i should just use the settings above @Helmchen @Mikeydiamonds

@mikeydiamonds @maerryham If you are using Mailgun the way @helmchen has defined here you need the guzzlehttp/guzzle package. you may refer to the Driver Prerequisites here : https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/mail