Laravel mail configuration if using providers - php

Question

I want do a helper who send mails, i was start by doing provider and a custom class for my helper.
my provider register function:
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind('mailer.helper', function (Application $app){
return new MailerHelper($app->make('mailer'));
});
}
my helper function:
class MailerHelper implements SelfHandling{
/** #var Mailer $mailer */
protected $mailer;
public function __construct(Mailer $mailer) {
$this->mailer=$mailer;
}
public function sendFromContact(array $date){
$this->mailer->send('email_templates/contact', $date, function (Message $message){
$message->setTo('stroia.laurentiu92#gmail.com');
$message->setFrom('contact#dianabotezan.ro','Contact website Diana Botezan');
$message->setSubject('Forumlar contact');
});
}
}
my configuration from config/mail.php:
return [
'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 587),
'from' => ['address' => null, 'name' => null],
'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', 'ssl'),
'username' => env('my_gmal#gmail.com'),
'password' => env('mypassword'),
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',
'pretend' => false,
]'
and the problem is laravel have a bad configuration, here is my track from what he try to do:
Connection could not be established with host 127.0.0.1 [Connection refused #111]
1. in StreamBuffer.php line 265
2. at Swift_Transport_StreamBuffer->_establishSocketConnection() in StreamBuffer.php line 62
3. at Swift_Transport_StreamBuffer->initialize(array('protocol' => null, 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => '2525', 'timeout' => '30', 'blocking' => '1', 'tls' => false, 'type' => '1')) in AbstractSmtpTransport.php line 113
here you can observe he have other config then I set it. What i do wrong ?

Answer 1

It looks like you've put your configuration in the wrong place.
Instead of editing the config/mail.php file directly, you should put your mail configuration settings in the .env file at the root of your project.
You can see here in the sample file shipped with laravel.