Mandrill ValidationError

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My question is this. I am getting the

Answer 1

In Laravel 7.x, Mandrill is no longer part of core. If, like me, you are using therobfonz/laravel-mandrill-driver, you might also see a similar error if you fail to set Mandril key in your .env file.

I had this MANDRILL_SECRET=h3xxxx but I needed this MANDRILL_KEY=h3xxxx.

To verify which key you are calling, look for this chunk in config\services.php

    // Mandrill is no longer core laravel...
    'mandrill' => [
        'secret' => env('MANDRILL_KEY'),
    ],

Another symptom of not calling your key is that your failed calls will not show up in your Mandrill api-log listings (since the missing key means Mandrill.com doesn't know where to post the failed attempt).