Laravel - Connection could not be established with host smtp gmail com 0

Question

I have been working on sending an email from Gmail using Laravel from localhost. I'm getting this error:

Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [ #0]

I have been using ssl with port 465 and have additionally tried 587 but it didn't work. Additionally, I also tried many ways but it didn't work.

Answer 1

While using the Laravel project directory, edit config/mail.php and add the following:

'stream' => [ 
              'ssl' => [ 
                        'allow_self_signed' => true, 
                        'verify_peer' => false, 
                        'verify_peer_name' => false, 
      ], 
]

Have shared my SMTP settings below:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp 
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com 
MAIL_PORT=465 
MAIL_USERNAME=[Full Gmail Address] 
MAIL_PASSWORD=[Google App Password obtained after two step verification on Google Account Page] 
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

Hope this answers your question.