Do the same as Mail Chimp and Campaign Monitor then. LIE about your stats. There is no accurate way to track emails. If there was it’d just get blocked again. Most people don’t want you to know these things and most email software ensures you don’t. The stats provided by email tracking services are bogus. … Read more
I had the same problem and I resolved it in this way: ‘driver’ => ‘sendmail’, You need to change only that line.
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Swift_TransportException’ with message ‘Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Connection refused #111] Connection refused is a very explicit and clear error message. It means that the socket connection could not be established because the remote end actively refused to connect. It’s very unlikely that Google is blocking the connection. … Read more
GMail’s SMTP requires encryption. Use: Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance(‘smtp.gmail.com’, 465, “ssl”);
update on 7/20/2022: For more current versions of Laravel, the setBody() method in the Mail::send() example below has been replaced with the text() or html() methods. update: In Laravel 5 you can use raw instead: Mail::raw(‘Hi, welcome user!’, function ($message) { $message->to(..) ->subject(..); }); This is how you do it: Mail::send([], [], function ($message) { … Read more
This problem can generally occur when you do not enable two step verification for the gmail account (which can be done here) you are using to send an email. So first, enable two step verification, you can find plenty of resources for enabling two step verification. After you enable it, then you have to create … Read more
gmail doesn’t allow you to use random From addresses. You have to add and validate the address you’d like to use in the gmail settings: Settings -> Accounts -> Send mail as -> Add another email address you own
I was going to say that PHPMailer is no longer developed, and Swift Mailer is. But when I googled … https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer That suggests its being worked on again. I’ve used PHPMailer a lot, and its always been solid and reliable. I had recently started using Swift Mailer, for the above reason, and it too has … Read more
Don’t mean to resurrect an old post, but just in case others are looking for the answer, and because this post came up during my search for a solution despite the age. When using PHP SwiftMailer to connect to Gmail or Google Apps email accounts you need to use the following $transporter = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance(‘smtp.gmail.com’, 465, … Read more