Laravel can't send mail Connection could not be established with host smtp.mailgun.org

Question

Mail::send('emails.test_layout', $data, function($message)
{
    $message->to('myemail@gmail.com', 'test')->subject('test request');
});

i'am getting this error:

Connection could not be established with host smtp.mailgun.org

how to fix this?

using laravel-4

Answer 1

There is no such problem with mailgun. The problem might be with your internet server provider blocking outbound SMTP traffics (contact them for this issue) or you might have issue with your network connections especially with firewall settings.