Authentication required message when sending email - php

Question

I am trying send email verification links to user when they register but I get a message Authentication required and mail isn't sent. I tried using mailtrap for demo and sendgrid which I will be using in production but the message was the same. This is how I a going about it
After running composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle I updated my env file like this
# MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
# MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
# MAIL_PORT=2525
# MAIL_USERNAME=mailtrap_username
# MAIL_PASSWORD=mailtrap_password
# MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=sendgrid_username
MAIL_PASSWORD=sendgrid_password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
In the controller, I want to send the mail after a user is successfully created like this
...
use App\Mail\VerifyEmail;
...
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
public function register(Request $request)
{
// create and store new user record
$user = User::create([
'username' => $request->username,
'password' => bcrypt($request->password)
]);
// send user email verification link
Mail::to($user->username)->send(new VerifyEmail());
}
VerifyMail.php
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
class VerifyEmail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
//
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
$from = 'support#fromus.com';
$name = 'custom name';
$subject = 'Welcome! Confirm Your Email';
return $this->from($from, $name)
->subject($subject)
->view('auth.verify');
}
}
Following the documentation for email verification https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/verification#verification-routing I added the Auth::routes(['verify' => true]) to api.php file like this
<?php
// Register routes for email verification
Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
Route::prefix('v1')->group(function () {
// protected routes
Route::middleware('auth:api')->group(function () {
Route::get('products', 'ProductController#index'); // get products
});
});
Route::fallback(function () {
return response()->json(['error' => 'Not Found'], 404);
});
Why am I getting the Authentication required error message and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

First i removed Auth::routes(['verify' => true]) from the api.php file and added it in the web.php.
Then I ran php artisan config:cache to cache changes made to the env file. Fixed