Could you make a screenshot of the error? Only thing I see is $Input::all() as second parameter in Mail::send() but I think that's just a typo on this post. Actually you are just using smtp instead of the mandrill driver, which is ok but I just wanted to point it out. You could try to put the Mail::send() between comments to see if the exception is still thrown.

for use mandrill best package is :

doxxon/laravel-mandrill-request

for example :

public function send($fromEmail = NULL,$toEmail,$type,$code = NULL)
    {
        
        $fromEmail = $fromEmail ? $fromEmail : Settings::get('sender_email');

        $payload = 
        [
            'message' => 
            [
                'subject'    => Lang::get("email.$type"),
                'html'       => (string)View::make("email::$type",['code' => $code]),
                'from_email' => $fromEmail,
                'to'         => [['email' => $toEmail]]
            ]
        ];

        $response = Mandrill::request('messages/send', $payload);

        return $response;
    }

did u set the

driver' => 'mandrill'

You don't have to set the driver to mandrill. You can send with smtp via Mandrill.

Have you checked out the sairiz/mandrill package?

This is a Laravel package from Mandrill itself. View the docs here.

This is a L4 package.

hansvn said:

Have you checked out the sairiz/mandrill package?

This is a Laravel package from Mandrill itself. View the docs here.

Please RTFM: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/mail

To use the Mandrill driver, set the driver option to mandrill in your config/mail.php configuration file. Next, create an config/services.php configuration file if one does not already exist for your project. Verify that it contains the following options:

'mandrill' => [ 'secret' => 'your-mandrill-key', ],