Fitur mengirim email pada Laravel dengan Gmail atau Google Suite / G Suite

Konfigurasi yang dilakukan jika menggunakan gmail dan g-suite untuk mengirim email melalui laravel itu berbeda.

1. Dengan akun Gmail free biasa emailsaya@gmail.com

Dengan mengikuti panduan artikel berikut: https://medium.com/@agavitalis/how-to-send-an-email-in-laravel-using-gmail-smtp-server-53d962f01a0c

2. Dengan akun Google Suite atau G suite

Mengikuti panduan pada stackoverflow ini:

Expected response code 250 but got code "535", with message "535-5.7.8 Username and Password not…

Berikut ini jawabannya:

I researched on the internet and some answers includes enabling the “access for lesser app” and “unlocking gmail captcha” which sadly didn’t work for me until I found the 2-step verification.

What I did the following was:

1. enable the 2-step verification to google HERE
2. Create App Password to be use by your system HERE
3. I selected Others (custom name) and clicked generate
4. Went to my env file in laravel and edited this

MAIL_USERNAME=talentscoutphil@gmail.com

MAIL_PASSWORD=thepasswordgenerated

5. Restarted my apache server and boom! It works again.

This was my solution. I created this to at least make other people not go wasting their time researching for a possible answer.

Sekian, semoga bermanfaat, khususnya untuk arsip knowledge penulis pribadi.