1
votes

I am trying to send an email with laravel 5.2. But it is throwing this error

Expected response code 250 but got code "530", with message "530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. 6sm52599778wjt.5 - gsmtp "

This is my mail.php

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Mail Driver
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the
    | sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout
    | your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail.
    |
    | Supported: "smtp", "mail", "sendmail", "mailgun", "mandrill",
    |            "ses", "sparkpost", "log"
    |
    */

    'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | SMTP Host Address
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your
    | applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with
    | the Mailgun mail service which will provide reliable deliveries.
    |
    */

    'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.zoho.com'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | SMTP Host Port
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This is the SMTP port used by your application to deliver e-mails to
    | users of the application. Like the host we have set this value to
    | stay compatible with the Mailgun e-mail application by default.
    |
    */

    'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Global "From" Address
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from
    | the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is
    | used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application.
    |
    */

    'from' => ['address' => '[email protected]', 'name' => 'fics'],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | E-Mail Encryption Protocol
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when
    | the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the
    | transport layer security protocol should provide great security.
    |
    */

    'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'ssl'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | SMTP Server Username
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should
    | set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on
    | connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one.
    |
    */

    'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME','[email protected]'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | SMTP Server Password
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may set the password required by your SMTP server to send out
    | messages from your application. This will be given to the server on
    | connection so that the application will be able to send messages.
    |
    */

    'password' =>env('MAIL_PASSWORD','*****'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Sendmail System Path
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know
    | the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has
    | been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems.
    |
    */

    'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',

];

this is my mail function

 Mail::send('emails.contact',$data,function($message) use($mail)
                {
                    $message->to('[email protected]')->subject('Scholar enquiry');
                });

and .env file

MAIL_DRIVER= smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.zoho.com
MAIL_PORT=993
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=*****
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=lts

This is my first time of sending email in laravel. So please what is wrong with my code ?

2

2 Answers

1
votes

If you want to

specify 'encryption'=> env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'ssl')
you must use 'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 465)
and .env file

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
MAIL_PORT=465 

and if you want to

specify 'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587) then
you must use 'encryption'=> env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls')
and .env file

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_PORT=587

You are getting the error because you are specifying encryption as ssl while you are trying to connect through port 587 which expects to run STARTTLS command for TLS encryption.

1
votes

Just change your mail.php in the config folder from:

'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME','[email protected]'),
'password' =>env('MAIL_PASSWORD','*****'),

to:

'username' => 'your@emailaddress',
'password' => 'your_password',