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Akash_kushwaha's avatar

SMTP error

Hello everyone, I'm getting this error in my production server. for SMTP I'm using Sendgrid.

production.ERROR: Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "apikey" using 2 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response. Authenticator PLAIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response. {"exception":"[object] (Swift_TransportException(code: 0): Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "apikey" using 2 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response. Authenticator PLAIN returned Expected response code 250 but got an empty response. at /laravel/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/Esmtp/AuthHandler.php:191)

Please help.

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Snapey's avatar

make sure you use the correct port number, port 465 if you also specify tls

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