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){
    $email->to($r         


        

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
}