Using gmail smtp via Laravel: Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Connection timed out #110]

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Ahmad picture Ahmad · Aug 29, 2014 · Viewed 99.3k times · Source

When I try to use GMail SMTP for sending email via Laravel, I encounter the following error:

Swift_TransportException

Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Connection timed out #110]

It is the trace of the error:

...
 }
$this->_stream = @stream_socket_client($host.':'.$this->_params['port'], $errno, $errstr, $timeout, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, stream_context_create($options));
if (false === $this->_stream) {
throw new Swift_TransportException(
'Connection could not be established with host ' . $this->_params['host'] .
' [' . $errstr . ' #' . $errno . ']'...

and here are my configuration for mail:

'driver' => 'smtp',

'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',

'port' => 587,

'from' => array('address' => '[email protected]', 'name' => 'some'),

'encryption' => 'tls',

'username' => '[email protected]',

'password' => 'mypassword',

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

'pretend' => false

I use a shared host and the port 587 on localhost is open.

Answer

Matteo Codogno picture Matteo Codogno · Jan 23, 2015

I had the same problem and I resolved it in this way:

'driver' => 'sendmail',

You need to change only that line.

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