Laravel error when sending custom email address using smtp server

Question

I have a project that has a module that sends email from request. Im using beautymail package for the email template. I can send an email using a gmail account, but there is this email that I get from my client that has a custome email address in it. Like this [email protected], they said that the email is a smtp server. So I tried configuring my .env and other configuration files in laravel. But I get this error upon sending Connection could not be established with host mail.propnex.sg :stream_socket_client(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number Could someone tell me why Im getting this error and what should I do to get rid of this? Thanks a lot

.env config

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mail.propnex.sg
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

Mail.php

   'from' => [
        'address' => '[email protected]',
        'name' => 'Propnex',
    ],

    'reply_to' => ['address' => '[email protected]', 'name' => 'Propnex'],

    'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'),


    'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME'),

    'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),

    'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),

    'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),

    'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'mail.propnex.sg'),

Solution 1

You're using SSL (MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl) so you need to change MAIL_PORT=465 in .env file.

Solution 2

SSL VS TLS encryption

for TLS use Port : 587 for SSL use Port : 465

Solution 3

You might have crossed check every bit of line you have. The issue is with mailtrap.io it self. If your configuration is actually like this below.

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=31466861b7bXXX
MAIL_PASSWORD=fe2b6503618XXX
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

I tested with two separate framework to proof this error. check the SMTP credentials try resetting the credentials.