Well, this morning, with a fresh mind I found out what the issue was. It's all working as excepted now. Here's what went wrong;

'from' => array('address' => Config::get('email_default_from'), 'name' => Config::get('email_default_from_name')),

It's not possible to refer to the Config facade in this stage.. :-) I replaced the config getters with:

'from' => array('address' => '[email protected]', 'name' => 'My Name'),

And now it's working perfectly fine!

Maybe it's a good idea to add an error message when this kind of errors occur, if this is even possible?

Another few hours spent, but gained a lot more insight in Laravel!

Case closed.

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what if you did config('email_default_from') can you try & see whether that worked?

Steve-45 = spammer!

i'm also getting ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

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