title: How to to send mail using gmail in Laravel?
body: <p>I try again and again to test sending an email from localhost but I still cannot. I don't know anymore how to do it. I try search to find solution but I cannot find one. I edited config/mail.php: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  return [
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Mail Driver
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Laravel supports both SMTP and PHP's "mail" function as drivers for the
      | sending of e-mail. You may specify which one you're using throughout
      | your application here. By default, Laravel is setup for SMTP mail.
      |
      | Supported: "smtp", "mail", "sendmail", "mailgun", "mandrill", "ses", "log"
      |
      */
  
      'driver' =&gt; env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | SMTP Host Address
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may provide the host address of the SMTP server used by your
      | applications. A default option is provided that is compatible with
      | the Mailgun mail service which will provide reliable deliveries.
      |
      */
  
      'host' =&gt; env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | SMTP Host Port
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This is the SMTP port used by your application to deliver e-mails to
      | users of the application. Like the host we have set this value to
      | stay compatible with the Mailgun e-mail application by default.
      |
      */
  
      'port' =&gt; env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Global "From" Address
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | You may wish for all e-mails sent by your application to be sent from
      | the same address. Here, you may specify a name and address that is
      | used globally for all e-mails that are sent by your application.
      |
      */
  
      'from' =&gt; ['address' =&gt; 'myemail@gmail.com', 'name' =&gt; 'Do not Reply'],
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | E-Mail Encryption Protocol
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may specify the encryption protocol that should be used when
      | the application send e-mail messages. A sensible default using the
      | transport layer security protocol should provide great security.
      |
      */
  
      'encryption' =&gt; env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'tls'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | SMTP Server Username
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | If your SMTP server requires a username for authentication, you should
      | set it here. This will get used to authenticate with your server on
      | connection. You may also set the "password" value below this one.
      |
      */
  
      'username' =&gt; env('MAIL_USERNAME'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | SMTP Server Password
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may set the password required by your SMTP server to send out
      | messages from your application. This will be given to the server on
      | connection so that the application will be able to send messages.
      |
      */
  
      'password' =&gt; env('MAIL_PASSWORD'),
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Sendmail System Path
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | When using the "sendmail" driver to send e-mails, we will need to know
      | the path to where Sendmail lives on this server. A default path has
      | been provided here, which will work well on most of your systems.
      |
      */
  
      'sendmail' =&gt; '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Mail "Pretend"
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | When this option is enabled, e-mail will not actually be sent over the
      | web and will instead be written to your application's logs files so
      | you may inspect the message. This is great for local development.
      |
      */
  
      'pretend' =&gt; false,
  
  ];
  `
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I edited <code>.env</code> file like this already:</p>
  
  <pre><code>MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
  MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
  MAIL_PORT=587
  MAIL_USERNAME=myemail@gmail.com
  MAIL_PASSWORD=password
  MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It still produced error like this:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hGO3O.png"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hGO3O.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>