title: how to setup hotmail with laravel 4 mail method?
body: <p>I searched around but people seem to be using gmail setting with laravel instead of hotmail.
  I tried with the gmail setting and it works perfectly so I'm trying with hotmail but can't seem to get it to work.
  Can someone please give me a hand?
  I tried few different settings but none of them works at all.
  I tried things like</p>
  
  <pre><code>'driver' =&gt; 'smtp',
  'host' =&gt; 'smtp.live.com',
  'port' =&gt; 25,
  'encryption' =&gt; 'ssl',
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the above I tried port 587 and port 465 and changed encryption to TLS but none of them works and instead I get errors like</p>
  
  <p>Connection could not be established with host smtp.live.com [ #0] </p>
  
  <p>or error about taking too long to connect to the server that it's not responding.</p>
  
  <p>if I change the 'driver' to 'mail' the page will load without error but nothing in the email is received</p>
  
  <p>I even tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>'driver' =&gt; 'mail',
  'host' =&gt; 'pop3.live.com',
  'port' =&gt; 995,
  'encryption' =&gt; 'ssl',
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I still got nothing and if I change the driver to smtp I get errors</p>
  
  <p>Can someone give me a hand with this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot~</p>