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Laravel – Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username using 3 possible authenticators

If you still get following error (Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username) when sending email please follow below steps.

Swift_TransportException

Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username “yourid@gmail.com” using 3 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned Expected response code 235 but got code “535”, with message “535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at 535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials c17-20020a170902d49100b001624cd63bbbsm4334145plg.133 – gsmtp “. Authenticator PLAIN returned Expected response code 235 but got code “535”, with message “535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at 535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials c17-20020a170902d49100b001624cd63bbbsm4334145plg.133 – gsmtp “. Authenticator XOAUTH2 returned Expected response code 250 but got code “535”, with message “535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at 535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials c17-20020a170902d49100b001624cd63bbbsm4334145plg.133 – gsmtp “.

Step 1:

Please login into your gmail account and click on “Manage your Google Account” button form right to your profile picture.

Manage your Google Account

Step 2:

Go to to Security tab form left menu and please turn on 2-Step Verification by using your Recovery Phone.

2-Step Verification

Step 3:

Click on App Password bar form Sign in to Google section.

App Password

Step 4:

Select the app and device you want to generate the app password for. And enter a platform name and click on GENERATE button to generate new password.

Generated password

Finally copy your new generated password and save it your self also use it to your other device or app where you want to send SMTP email.

Step 5:

Now change password on Laravel .env file MAIL_PASSWORD value with new generated password.

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Laravel – Send email from any controller action

Laravel send email from any controllers. In this article, I am going to discuss the Mail API in the Laravel web framework. Laravel provides a clean, simple API over the popular SwiftMailer library with drivers for SMTP, Mailgun, sendmail etc. you are allowing to quickly get started sending mail.

The below are some easy steps to follow, and you will be able to send email in Laravel controller.

  • Install Laravel.
  • Create/Update Controller
  • Define a Controller Route.
  • SMTP configure in the .env file.
  • Create a Mailable class.
  • Create a Email Template.

Install Laravel.

Run following command to create new Laravel project.

Create/Update controller

Create new controller or update already defined method in your existing controller. Here I have create a new controller using below command.

After successfully create new controller you can update below code in your file.
app\Http\Controllers\EmailSendController.php

Define a route to send an email.

Now create a route in your web.php file to sending email to the user which you want.

Setting up SMTP details in .env file

We will use gmail SMTP to configure the settings in the .env file.

Create a Mailable class

Open your terminal and go to project root directory and type the following command.

So, it will create a file inside App\Mail\ContactUsMail.php. Now, this class catch form submitted data, and pass data to email template.

Create a email Template file in resources/views/emails/contact-us.blade.php

Now, you need to create a blade file inside the views/emails folder where you show email content and send form in laravel controller.

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Laravel – Custom contact form and send email

Laravel custom contact form and send email are another routine functionality that is a requirement of more or less every website. In this article, I am going to demonstrate how you can easily create a contact form and mail function in Laravel with email sending.

Laravel is well known PHP Framework, providing multiple solutions for a problem. This is one of the main reasons of the popularity of the PHP framework. Most popular solutions cover this framework routine functionality such as authentication, sessions, routing, send email and caching.

Creating custom contact form in Laravel

  • Configure Laravel Project
  • Install HTML and Form Package
  • Configure Project Database
  • Create Database Table Using Migrations
  • Create ContactUs Model
  • Create Page Route contact
  • Create ContactUs Controller
  • Create contact Page View
  • Sending Email Function

Configure Laravel Project

Install and configure your Laravel project by using the Composer create-project command in your terminal: composer create-project laravel/laravel laraveldemo –prefer-dist “laraveldemo” is your project directory.

Install HTML and Form Package

To create custom contact form in Laravel, I will use laravelcollective/html package for contact us Forms and HTML. Launch the SSH terminal and login to your server using the Master Credentials and go to your project root directory. Run command composer require laravelcollective/html

After successful installed HTML and Forms package laravelcollective/html, goto config/app.php file and add Autoloaded Service Provider and Class Alias.

Configure Project Database

Now configure your project database connection, Find .env file in your project root directory, Open .env and add database access credentials there.

Create Database Table Using Migration Command

Go to your SSH terminal and Run artisan make:migration create_YOUR_TABLE_NAME_table command to create the database migration for creating the Contact Us model.

Contact us migration has been created, go to database/migration/2020_04_02_180504_create_contact_us_table.php and update up method public function up() with database fields like below.

Now run the artisan migrate command to generated database table contact_us with all (id, name, email, message, created_at, updated_at) fields.

Create ContactUs Model

Go to your SSH terminal and Run make:model MODEL_NAME command to create ContactUS model.

After successfully created the ContactUS model, go to App directory and Find file app/ContactUS.php and add the following code in the file.

Create Page Route contact

Now, We will go to create the route “contact-us” (Contact Us page URL). Go to routes/web.php and add the following code to the route:

Create ContactUs Controller

After setup page the routes, I will go to create a controller to handle the requests from the routes. Go to your SSH terminal and Run make:controller CONTROLLER_NAME command to create the controller.

Go to app/Http/Controllers directory and find and Open ContactUSController.php and add the following code.

Create contact Page View

Now I am going to create contact us Page View layout of the contact form. Go to resources/views/ and create a file contactus.blade.php. Place the following code in this blade (view) file.

Form output like below picture.

Sending Email Function

Custom contact us form is now functional. On submitting the form, the data will be stored in the database. I will now make the form email send function.

Now create another blade (view) file, resources/views/email.blade.php and add the following code in email blade.

Now go to project directory, Find .env file, Open .env and add SMTP email access credentials there.

Now SMTP email the configuration is done, update app/Http/Controllers/ContactUsController.php with the following code.

Laravel custom contact us form is now ready for deployment. This module save the data in the database and send email it to the given email address as well. To test the Contact Us form, go to the application and click on launch application (remember to add /contact-us to the URL). Thanks.

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