Swift_TransportException Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com

Question

I can\'t figure for the life of me why exactly is it failing.. this is the exact error I am getting:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception \'Swift_TransportExcepti         


        

Answer 1

My solution was to change:

  'driver' => 'smtp',

to

 'driver' => 'mail',

In app/config/mail

Hope that helps

Answer 2

I just had this issue and solved it by editing mail.php under config folder. Usually when using shared hosting, they hosting company allows you to create an email such as

XXXX@yourdomainname.com

. So go to email settings under you shared hosting cpanel and add new email. Take that email and password and set it in the

mail.php.

It should work!

Answer 3

I had the same issue when I was using Godaddy web hosting and solved this by editing my .env file as,

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=XXXX.XXXX.in
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=dexxxxx
MAIL_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXX
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Where MAIL_HOST is your domain name from Godaddy, MAIL_USERNAME is your user name from Godaddy and MAIL_PASSWORD is your password from Godaddy.

I hope this may help you.

Answer 4

I had the same problem for a while, replacing: smtp.gmail.com with 173.194.65.108 actually worked for me!

Answer 5

In my case, I was using Laravel 5 and I had forgotten to change the mail globals in the .env file that is located in your directory root folder (these variables override your mail configuration)

   MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
   MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
   MAIL_PORT=465
   MAIL_USERNAME=yourmail@gmail.com
   MAIL_PASSWORD=yourpassword

by default, the mailhost is:

   MAIL_HOST=mailtraper.io

I was getting the same error but that worked for me.

Answer 6

tcp:465 was blocked. Try to add a new firewall rules and add a rule port 465. or check 587 and change the encryption to tls.