Email - Connection refused #111

Dont know which problem this is but:

Why dont you use an awesome free service like mailgun or mandrill for sending emails?

@hostianer,

Thanks for replying. The thing is i have already purchased and subscribed to office365, having set up my emails as xxx@mydomain.com. It's weird that the same configuration works on my local but not on my server.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing - Connection could not be established with host smtp.office365.com [Connection refused #111]

Thanks in advance.

Cheers Ralee

You should not require a mail server, merely a smtp mailer/client/library. Having a mail server would allow you to receive e-mail or allow others to "relay" e-mail off of your webserver = no bueno. You are using an external mail server for a reason, so you don't have to maintain your own and the security risks that come with it.

I stand corrected regarding using the mailx command, appears it would not be supported in Laravel.

For the smtp driver supplied by the Swiftlibrary

The Swift_SmtpTransport and Swift_SendmailTransport transports use proc_* PHP functions, which might not be available on your PHP installation. You can easily check if that's the case by running the following PHP script: <?php echo function_exists('proc_open') ? "Yep, that will work" : "Sorry, that won't work";

More information: http://swiftmailer.org/docs/sending.html

update: Apparently shared server have a whole different setup from dedicated server. So this is the configuration that works for my case.

'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'sendmail'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'localhost'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
'from' => ['address' => '**********', 'name' => '********'],
'encryption' => 'tls',
'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t',
'pretend' => false,

I hope this can help someone out with the same issue as me.

Thanks @hostianer and @billmurrin for replying!

Cheers Ralee

@ralee Thanks man!!! You've saved my day!!

email of any sort from godaddy's servers tends to be a huge pain... much moreso than I should be. :)

@ralee Thanks mate, It's work for us like charm for godaddy shared hosting.

Thanks again..

@ralee Thanks man, You saved my day.

@ralee thank you buddy,

@ralee Thanks, for the rescue !

Hi friends,

I am trying to send emails with Godaddy and cloudflare using Laravel but it is not working

.env:

MAIL_DRIVER=sendmail

MAIL_HOST=localhost

MAIL_PORT=465

MAIL_USERNAME=***

MAIL_PASSWORD=****

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

MX are right configured https://gyazo.com/2e991d0e768ff4a5bd2f94d85946bd83

Mail servers: https://gyazo.com/84f5c16faecf5e1ae504bee347f24ec7

seems that shared hosting dont allow to another smtp servers or at least i dont know how to setup it. I solved using the smtp from the selfhosting like this: MAIL_DRIVER=smtp MAIL_HOST=yourdomain MAIL_PORT=587 [email protected] MAIL_PASSWORD=passwordusermail MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

@ralee where did you setup the sendmail for office365 then please? I am using sendgrid instead - if I use sendmail instead of smtp how can I specify the host