Laravel error about GMAIL smtp usage: "Unable to establish connection with host "mailpit:1025""

Question

I tried sending email using Laravel and Gmail but it throws this error:

Unable to establish connection to host 'mailpit:1025': Stream_socket_client(): php_network_getaddresses: Get address information Mailpit failed: No such host is known.

I don't understand why it's trying to connect to Mailpit instead of Gmail.

My .env file looks like this:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=est.juan.arango1@unimilitar.edu.co
MAIL_PASSWORD=[google app password]
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

My routing looks like this:

Route::get('/senMail', function () {

    try {
        Mail::to('est.juan.arango1@unimilitar.edu.co'')->send(new Subscribe());
    } catch (Throwable $e) {
        return '<div>FAILED ' . $e . '</div>';
    }
});

The subscription template is regularphp artisan make:mail Subscribe --markdown=emails.subscribers

I tried running php artisan cache:clear and php artisan config:clear but it kept throwing errors, I also changed the port 587 to 465, But no success. < /p>

Also tried this configuration in the config/mail.php file:

'stream' => [
            'ssl' => [
                'allow_self_signed' => true,
                'verify_peer' => false,
                'verify_peer_name' => false,
            ],
        ],

Answer 1

Try these two commands in the terminal

php artisan route:clear // Clear route cache

php artisan config:cache // This will clear the configuration cache