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Leon Segal
Leon Segal

Reputation: 751

Laravel Notifications not sending

I set up a contact form which sends an email on completion using Laravel notifications, however it doesn't look like anything is being sent.

ROUTES

Route::post('/contact', 'ContactController@store');

CONTROLLER

public function store()
{
    request()->validate([
        'name' => 'required|max:255',
        'email' => 'required|email|unique:contacts|max:255',
        'message' => 'required|max:2000',
    ]);

    $contact = Contact::create(
        request()->only([
            'name',
            'email',
            'message',
        ])
    );

    User::first()->notify(new SendContactNotification($contact));

    return back()->with('success', 'Thank you, I will be in touch as soon as I can');
}

NOTIFICATION

protected $contact;


public function __construct($contact)
{
    $this->contact = $contact;
}

public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    return (new MailMessage)
                ->line($this->contact->name)
                ->line($this->contact->email)
                ->line($this->contact->message);
}

I do get the success message when I run it. However, nothing appears in my Mailtrap. Here's the mail section of the sanitised .env file:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=username
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS='[email protected]'
MAIL_FROM_NAME='admin'

I can't see what I have done wrong. I also tried type hinting the contact in the notification like so:

public function __construct(Contact $contact)
{
    $this->contact = $contact;
}

That didn't work unfortunately. I also thought it might be something to do with my computer not being set up to send emails using php, but I was under the impression that the env file would take care of that.

The contacts are being stored in the database ok, but no emails are being sent. Would anyone be able to help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6523

Answers (1)

Leon Segal
Leon Segal

Reputation: 751

It was the port in the env file, I changed it to:

MAIL_PORT=465

and it worked!

I knew port 2525 wasn't working because of this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45418259/5497241

Upvotes: 2

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