Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Connection refused #111] in laravel 5.6 email send

Question

Email Sending failed from cpnel but it works fine in my localhost.

Here is my email configuration in .env file.

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_USERNAME=myemail@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=mypassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

It works fine in localhost but not working in cpanel. In cpanel it shows

Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [Connection refused #111]

How do i solve this?

Answer 1

Problem Solved. I made the change two things here MAIL_DRIVER and MAIL_PORT.

MAIL_DRIVER=sendmail
MAIL_PORT=587

So, my full code is:

MAIL_DRIVER=sendmail
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=myemail@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=mypassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

It works fine