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Chinmay Dabke
Chinmay Dabke

Reputation: 5140

SMTP connect() failed PHPmailer - PHP

I am new to PHP. I was trying to send myself a sample e-mail through PHPmailer. I am using gmail's smtp server. I am trying to send a sample mail from my gmail account to my yahoo account. But I am getting the error : Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
Here is the code : 

<?php

require "class.phpmailer.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer(); 
$mail->IsSMTP();                              // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                       // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "[email protected]";        // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "mypassword";               // SMTP password
$webmaster_email = "[email protected]";       //Reply to this email ID
$email="[email protected]";                // Recipients email ID
$name="My Name";                              // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->FromName = "My Name";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"My Name");
$mail->WordWrap = 50;                         // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true);                          // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi,
This is the HTML BODY ";                      //HTML Body 
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body 

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>

I am using WAMP server on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. What could be the prob?
Please help me solve this. Thanks!

Upvotes: 29

Views: 189092

Answers (18)

Wishva Kalhara
Wishva Kalhara

Reputation: 1

Check whether the virus guard blocks the mail. If it is turn off and try again.

Upvotes: 0

ivyyeziyang
ivyyeziyang

Reputation: 21

find the "class.smtp.php" file original:

$this->smtp_conn =fsockopen(
$host,
$port,
$errno,
$errstr,
$timeout
);

change to:

$this->smtp_conn = @stream_socket_client(
$host,
$port,
$errno,
$errstr,
$timeout
);

Upvotes: 0

user1562628
user1562628

Reputation: 1

After days of searching, I found out that the protocol name needs to be in lowercase.

$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; # lowercase

Upvotes: 0

Zaib Ali
Zaib Ali

Reputation: 41

$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;   
$mail->isSendMail(); // instead of  isSMTP();

On shared hosting, your mail server may occasionally experience connection issues. Here I found solution

[Edit]

Here is the link content, in case the link stop working for some reason (it happens)

PHPMailer and SMTP on 1and1 shared hosting

I use PHPMailer on my 1and1 shared hosting account. Recently, I could not send email anymore.

I tried debugging and this is the error that PHPMailer throws:

Language string failed to load: connect_host

After googling for a solution and trying different SMTP servers, accounts and SMTP ports, I decided to switch to sendmail and it worked like a charm! All I needed to do was to replace $mail->isSmtp() with:

$mail->isSendMail()

sendMail is located in its default location on 1and1 servers : /usr/sbin/sendmail, so no change of settings was required.

Conclusion:

1and1 probably closed its outgoing SMTP ports on its shared hosting servers. Consequently, if you use PHPMailer, don’t use SMTP mode anymore.

Upvotes: 4

Benson Arafat
Benson Arafat

Reputation: 499

Just make sure you passed the right parameters eg. the correct outgoing server host, username, and password

$mail->SMTPDebug = false;
$mail->Host = 'email_smtp_host'
$mail->SMTPAuth = false
$mail->Username = 'username'
$mail->Password = 'password'
$mail->SMTPSecure 'tls'
$mail->Port = '587'

Upvotes: 3

chamika madushanka
chamika madushanka

Reputation: 60

<?php

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

require_once "PHPMailer/src/Exception.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php";



$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail ->isSMTP();
$mail ->Host ="smtp.gmail.com";
$mail -> SMTPAuth = true;
$mail ->Username = '[email protected]';
$mail ->Password = 'password';
//$mail ->SMTPSecure=PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail ->Port = '587';
$mail ->SMTPSecure ='tls';
$mail ->isHTML(true);

$mail ->setFrom('[email protected]','email send name');

$mail ->addAddress('[email protected]');
$mail ->Subject = 'HelloWorld';
$mail ->Body = 'a test email';


$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
    'ssl' => array(
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false,
        'allow_self_signed' => true
    )
);



if ($mail->send()){
    echo "Message has been sent successfully";
}else{
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

?>

make sure that you configure less secure app settings in gmail using this link https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and make sure you downloaded PHPMailer-master.zip from github

working fine with MAMP server locally :)

Upvotes: 0

Osama Mughal
Osama Mughal

Reputation: 1

 $mail->SMTPOptions = array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false,
            'allow_self_signed' => true
        )
    );

Upvotes: 0

Mahdi Safari
Mahdi Safari

Reputation: 298

This is usually a result of the server not accepting SSLv2 or SSLv3 connections which is a standard for cPanel/WHM in favor of TLS only connections. You can check this by going to WHM>>Service Configuration>>Exim Configuration Manager -> Options for OpenSSL

Upvotes: 0

chobela
chobela

Reputation: 305

Try adding this line to your script. This worked for me!

$mail->Mailer = “smtp”;

Upvotes: 0

Musab ibnu Siraj
Musab ibnu Siraj

Reputation: 61

I fixed it ...

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/5.2-stable

<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = '[email protected]';                 // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'pass';                           // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 25;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'User');     // Add a recipient

$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

if(!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message has been sent';
}

Turn on access and enjoy..! That is on Gmail account setting.

Turn On access

Upvotes: 2

Maki92
Maki92

Reputation: 441

If you're using VPS and with httpd service, please check if your httpd_can_sendmail is on.

getsebool -a | grep mail

to set on

setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on

Upvotes: 0

Lynton Black
Lynton Black

Reputation: 179

Solved an almost identical problem, by adding these lines to the standard PHPMailer configuration. Works like a charm.

$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;   
$mail->Mailer = “smtp”; // don't change the quotes!

Came across this code (from Simon Chen) while researching a solution here, https://webolio.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/phpmailer-and-smtp-on-1and1-shared-hosting/#comment-89

Upvotes: 17

Jhonattan
Jhonattan

Reputation: 422

Troubleshooting

You have add this code:

 $mail->SMTPOptions = array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false,
            'allow_self_signed' => true
        )
    );

And Enabling Allow less secure apps: "will usually solve the problem for PHPMailer, and it does not really make your app significantly less secure. Reportedly, changing this setting may take an hour or more to take effect, so don't expect an immediate fix"

This work for me!

Upvotes: 8

A.M.N.Bandara
A.M.N.Bandara

Reputation: 1508

If anyone is still unable to solve the issue, please check following thread and follow callmebob's answer.

PHPMailer - SMTP ERROR: Password command failed when send mail from my server

Upvotes: 2

user889030
user889030

Reputation: 4754

if everything fails then for gmail you must turn on access to 3rd party apps to connect to ur gmail account.

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps // turn it on

Upvotes: 1

Rizwan Akhwandzada
Rizwan Akhwandzada

Reputation: 391

The solution of this problem is really very simple. actually Google start using a new authorization mechanism for its User.. you might have seen another line in debug console prompting you to log into your account using any browser.! this is because of new XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism which google start using since 2014. remember.. do not use the ssl over port 465, instead go for tls over 587. this is just because of XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism. if you use ssl over 465, your request will be bounced back.

what you really need to do is .. log into your google account and open up following address https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and check turn on . you have to do this for letting you to connect with the google SMTP because according to new authentication mechanism google bounce back all the requests from all those applications which does not follow any standard encryption technique.. after checking turn on.. you are good to go.. here is the code which worked fine for me..

require_once 'C:\xampp\htdocs\email\vendor\autoload.php';

define ('GUSER','[email protected]');
define ('GPWD','your password');


// make a separate file and include this file in that. call this function in that file.

function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body) { 
    global $error;
    $mail = new PHPMailer();  // create a new object
    $mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;  // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;  // authentication enabled
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
    $mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 587;

    $mail->Username = GUSER;  
    $mail->Password = GPWD;           
    $mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->Body = $body;
    $mail->AddAddress($to);
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        $error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo; 
        return false;
    } else {
        $error = 'Message sent!';
        return true;
    }
}

Upvotes: 29

Kraang Prime
Kraang Prime

Reputation: 10479

You are missing the directive that states the connection uses SSL

require ("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); 
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;     // turn of SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "YAHOO ACCOUNT";  // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "YAHOO ACCOUNT PASSWORD"; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "YAHOO HOST"; // SMTP host
$mail->Port = 465;

Then add in the other parts

$webmaster_email = "[email protected]";       //Reply to this email ID
$email="[email protected]";                // Recipients email ID
$name="My Name";                              // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->FromName = "My Name";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"My Name");
$mail->WordWrap = 50;                         // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true);                          // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi,
This is the HTML BODY ";                      //HTML Body 
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body 

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}

As a side note, I have had trouble using Body + AltBody together although they are supposed to work. As a result, I wrote the following wrapper function which works perfectly.

<?php
require ("class.phpmailer.php");

// Setup Configuration for Mail Server Settings
$email['host']          = 'smtp.email.com';
$email['port']          = 366;
$email['user']          = '[email protected]';
$email['pass']          = 'from password';
$email['from']          = 'From Name';
$email['reply']         = '[email protected]';
$email['replyname']     = 'Reply To Name';

$addresses_to_mail_to = '[email protected];[email protected]';
$email_subject = 'My Subject';
$email_body = '<html>Code Here</html>';
$who_is_receiving_name = 'John Smith';

$result = sendmail(
    $email_body,
    $email_subject,
    $addresses_to_mail_to,
    $who_is_receiving_name
);

var_export($result);


function sendmail($body, $subject, $to, $name, $attach = "") {

  global $email;
  $return = false;

  $mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
  $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
  try {
    $mail->Host       = $email['host']; // SMTP server
//    $mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->Host       = $email['host']; // sets the SMTP server
    $mail->Port       = $email['port'];                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
    $mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
    $mail->Username   = $email['user']; // SMTP account username
    $mail->Password   = $email['pass'];        // SMTP account password
    $mail->AddReplyTo($email['reply'], $email['replyname']);
    if(stristr($to,';')) {
      $totmp = explode(';',$to);
      foreach($totmp as $destto) {
        if(trim($destto) != "") {
          $mail->AddAddress(trim($destto), $name);
        }
      }
    } else {
      $mail->AddAddress($to, $name);
    }
    $mail->SetFrom($email['user'], $email['from']);
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
    $mail->MsgHTML($body);
    if(is_array($attach)) {
        foreach($attach as $attach_f) {
            if($attach_f != "") {
              $mail->AddAttachment($attach_f);      // attachment
            }
        }
    } else {
        if($attach != "") {
          $mail->AddAttachment($attach);      // attachment
        }
    }
    $mail->Send();
  } catch (phpmailerException $e) {
    $return = $e->errorMessage();
  } catch (Exception $e) {
    $return = $e->errorMessage();
  }

  return $return;
}

Upvotes: 1

Shankar Narayana Damodaran
Shankar Narayana Damodaran

Reputation: 68466

You need to add the Host parameter

$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";

Also, check if you have open_ssl enabled.

<?php
echo !extension_loaded('openssl')?"Not Available":"Available";

Upvotes: 19

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