Laravel Lumen Mail and Amazon SES 500 Internal Server Error on Ubuntu Server (Production)

Spent a good deal of time reviewing this...

What I've double, triple checked and against existing Stack Overflow current issues:

• .env has all the correct creds.. all Amazon SES req.
• Fixed/reviewed all Laravel Mail req.
• Changed MAIL_DRIVER = log

Everything works fine on localhost.. perfect

Set everything up on Ubuntu, fails. If I comment out the Mail part, I get the response message that would come directly after the Mail lines of code.

I'm thinking whether it has anything to do with pointing to the public folder and then the route?

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Also, my domain is managed by AWS Route 53 and points to a Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server IP address.

Any ideas appreciated. Thank you!

via Chebli Mohamed