Struggling to Send Gmail Emails in Laravel?

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Configured Laravel to use Gmail’s SMTP on localhost, yet mail fails. Below are my revised settings. How do I fix this?

<?php
return [
    'mailer'    => env('EMAIL_MODE', 'smtp'),
    'server'    => env('EMAIL_SERVER', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
    'port'      => env('EMAIL_PORT', 587),
    'sender'    => ['address' => '[email protected]', 'alias' => 'NoReply'],
    'security'  => env('EMAIL_SECURITY', 'tls'),
    'user'      => env('EMAIL_USER'),
    'pass'      => env('EMAIL_SECRET'),
    'simulate'  => false,
];

EMAIL_MODE=smtp
EMAIL_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
EMAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
EMAIL_SECRET=yourpassword
EMAIL_SECURITY=null
2

Based on my experience, the key issue could be related to how Gmail handles authentication now. I encountered a similar problem when using Laravel with Gmail and resolved it by updating the EMAIL_SECURITY value to tls in the .env file, since Gmail no longer accepts null or unencrypted transmissions. Additionally, it’s important to generate an app-specific password in your Google account settings if you have two-factor authentication enabled, as plain account passwords won’t work reliably anymore. I also made sure that the server environment was configured correctly for secure transmission, and revisiting these settings solved my email sending problem.