I'm trying to send email with Laravel using mailtrap for testing in a local homestead server.
The firewall shows no rules blocking port 2525.
Mail driver config:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=$USERNAME
MAIL_PASSWORD=$PASSWORD
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
Error returned:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Swift_TransportException' with message 'Connection could not be established with host mailtrap.io [Connection timed out #110]'
Your hostname is invalid. It should be smtp.mailtrap.io
. More info here: https://mailtrap.io/blog/2018-03-09-why-mailtrap-updated-its-smtp-host
P.S. Mailtrap doesn't have static IP addresses, so your way with IPv4 will work not so long amount of time.