Hello Richard, You are welcome to the Laravel world. it seems you have not yet set up a local mailing system. You will have to install Mailhog on your local environment and update your .env mailing variable.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mailhog+with+laravel

I hope this helps. Cheers

I does, Jenkins, though only in a roundabout way. I didn't know about Mailhog, so I'll go and find it and install it now if it fits my environment. Problem is it helps only because I was worried about rate limits in case my ISP begins to suspect I'm sending spam. If it is what I think it is, it's going to allow me do all the testing I want without getting myself blacklisted, and it will also allow me to see what's getting to the SMTP server. I was sending to my live SMTP server, but of course I don't have any insight into what's happening there. I have a few other systems on my machine, all using SMTP with no issues, via my ISP. This issue that I'm having now is telling me that either I've mis-configured something because something is missing from the docs, or because I am misunderstanding something in the text. I've installed one of my production systems, a DMS, on my test system, and that has no problem sending mail via my ISP, so I know it's not environmental.

In the meantime, I've figured out that the mailer - like failover or roundrobin - contains the array which indicates what kind of transport to use - like SMTP or sendmail. But there is nothing in the config that was installed by Breeze that has smtp as a transport.

I figured that out just as I had run out of time and had to leave for work. Now that I'm back home I'll investigate that as a possibility that mail.php has something that needs re-arranging.

Hello Richard, are you on local evn. or on production ?

I'm in a Dev environment. I have the problem regardless of whether I run under Apache or the artisan server. Thanks to XDebug, I've managed to figure out that if I delete the url line from mail.php, it works perfectly. What I'm talking about is this:

` 'smtp' => [

        'transport' => 'smtp',
        'url' => env('MAIL_URL'), <<------
        'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 2525),
        'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'),
        'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
        'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),
        'timeout' => null,
        'local_domain' => env('MAIL_EHLO_DOMAIN', parse_url(env('APP_URL', 'http://localhost'), PHP_URL_HOST)),
    ],

`

So, that seems to be a bug, but it's so obvious a bug and such a major bug, that I cannot see it ever leaving testing without being picked up. So since not a lot was done in terms of actual development, I'm going to commit everything to git, then delete everything and re-install from scratch. I figure I've done something wrong during installation. Especially likely since it's my first time ever with Laravel.

BTW - after doing a bit of reading, I ended up creating a free account on mailtrap.io to do my mail testing. Works very well, and there's nothing to configure locally, so it's a very low-impact solution. Thank you very much for the Mailhog suggestion.

Replying for the updates.