Laravel not sending email and not giving errors

Question

I've been on a project for the past four months now and I am really pissed at what am facing with Laravel right now. It's not sending emails; I set it up to use the mail driver and put in the right code, but it seems not to work at all. Besides not working, it doesn't even give me an error!

Here is my configuration:

return array(  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mail Driver |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the | sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout | your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail. | | Supported: "smtp", "mail", "sendmail" | */  'driver' => 'mail',  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | SMTP Host Address |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your | applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with | the Postmark mail service, which will provide reliable delivery. | */  'host' => 'smtp.mailgun.org',  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | SMTP Host Port |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | This is the SMTP port used by your application to delivery e-mails to | users of your application. Like the host we have set this value to | stay compatible with the Postmark e-mail application by default. | */  'port' => 587,  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Global "From" Address |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from | the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is | used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application. | */  'from' => array('address' => null, 'name' => null),  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | E-Mail Encryption Protocol |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when | the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the | transport layer security protocol should provide great security. | */  'encryption' => 'tls',  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | SMTP Server Username |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should | set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on | connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one. | */  'username' => null,  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | SMTP Server Password |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Here you may set the password required by your SMTP server to send out | messages from your application. This will be given to the server on | connection so that the application will be able to send messages. | */  'password' => null,  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sendmail System Path |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know | the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has | been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems. | */  'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',  /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mail "Pretend" |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | When this option is enabled, e-mail will not actually be sent over the | web and will instead be written to your application's logs files so | you may inspect the message. This is great for local development. | */  'pretend' => false,  ); 

Here is my PHP code for sending email:

$data["mail_message"] = "Hello!";      Mail::send('emails.welcome', $data, function($message)     {         $message             ->to('[email protected]')             ->from('[email protected]')             ->subject('TEST');     }); 

Answer 1

First and foremost, go to the app/config/mail.php and change the driver to “mail”. Also put the host as blank.

Answer 2

In my scenario email was being queued so that is why I got no output. I had forgotten I set email to queue by default. I looked in the Jobs table I saw all my messages waiting in there. I ran php artisan queue:work to get the queue running/sending them.