Laravel 5 - How Do You Catch an Mail::send() Error?

Question

I have the following method which sends out an e-mail:

Mail::send('emails.configuration_test', array(), function($email)use($request){     $email->to($request->test_address)->subject('Configuration Test'); }); 

If the above errors out, I'd like to be able to catch the exception. When I use the following:

try{     Mail::send('emails.configuration_test', array(), function($email)use($request){         $email->to($request->test_address)->subject('Configuration Test');     }); } catch(Exception $e){     // Never reached } 

the exception is never caught. Instead I get a Laravel stacktrace as the response if the send() method errors out.

How do I catch the exception in this case?

Answer 1

Using the root namespace \Exception did the trick.

Instead of:

catch(Exception $e){     // Never reached } 

I used:

catch(\Exception $e){     // Get error here }