Mail php function getting error in laravel

Question

I'm using mail function to override reset password auth.

public function resetPassword(Request $request){
    $new_password = rand(120400, 940490);
    $email=$request->input("email");
    $user = new User();
    $count = $user -> where('email',$email) -> count();
    if ($count == 0){
        $meta = $api_meta->metaData(false,"Email does not exist.",[],'');
        return ['meta'=>$meta];
    }
    $user = $user -> where('email',$email) -> get() -> first();


    $user -> password = bcrypt($new_password);
    $user -> save();

    $to      = $email;
    $subject = 'user message';
    $message = "
    Your new password is : $new_password
    ";
    $headers = 'From: ' .$email. "\r\n";


    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}

In Router.php I modified from :

$this->post('password/email', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail')->name('password.email');

to:

$this->post('password/email', 'UserController@resetPassword')->name('password.email');

I think everything there is alright but I get an error :

Cannot send message without a sender address

Answer 1

Make sure you've defined from in the config/mail.php :

'from' => [
    'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', 'hello@example.com'),
    'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
],

If you didn't edit it, add sender email and name to the .env :

MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=me@example.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME=MyName