Laravel is sending mail using my old email configuration

Question

I've changed my e-mail configuration in the .env file but when I'm trying to send a mail, it's using my old configuration.

I've tried some commands:

php artisan clear-compiled, php artisan cache:clear, and php artisan config:clear but it still sending using my old email.

I also tried to change the password of my old Gmail account, but my site is just sending mail with my old mail account.

I've noticed this:

This message may not have been sent by: [redacted]@gmail.com Learn more Report phishing

on the received mail.

Answer 1

If you're sending emails from a queue, try restarting the queue using php artisan queue:restart.

This fixed the issue for me. I had tried composer dump-autoload, php artisan clear-compiled, php artisan cache:clear, and php artisan config:clear as mentioned above but they didn't fix the issue in my case.

Answer 2

When you send email usually you would use some mail library and you get to choose ->from("[email protected]") parameter. This email object then gets sent using an email driver. The email driver then uses the environment settings to connect to an smtp account for e.g.

So changing the environmental variable will change the account which is the actual email sender but I assume you have forgotten to change the ->from("..") parameter.

This explains why you are seeing a notice saying this may not have been sebt by ...