A number of people had shown similar question, using phpmailer with g-mail. This problem is slightly different and may need a different answer.
The phpmailer code is fairly standard (below). I have a loop that goes through some data in the table and builds customised messages for recipients, sending a message for each row in the table. When the message is sent, it successfully completes about 75 out of some 100 recipients, and for the last 25, it reports the SMTP connect() failed error. This doesn't happen every time, and occasionally, the script goes through the loop without errors.
<?php
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPsecure = "ssl";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "xx"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "xx"; // SMTP account password
$mail->SetFrom("xx#gmail.com");
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->CharSet = "utf-8";
$mail->Subject = $msgsubject;
$mail->AltBody = "Invitation";
do {
$membername = $row_musicians['name'];
$membernumber = $row_musicians['number'];
$emailaddress = $row_musicians['email'];
$rhdate = $row_musicians['rhdate'];
$mail->clearAttachments();
$mail->Body = 'Dear '.$membername.',
<p>'.$maintext.'</p>
';
// some more text using custom variables from database
// closing part of the message
$mail->Body .= '<p>'.nl2br($closing, false).'</p>
</body>
</html>';
$mail->AddAddress($emailaddress, $membername); // sending each message
sleep(1); // wait one second between sends, to avoid spam filters
echo '<br />
Recipient: '.$membername.' ('.$emailaddress.') -- ';
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: <div style='color:#009999'>" . $mail->ErrorInfo." </div>";
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
$mail->ClearAddresses();
} while ($row_musicians = mysql_fetch_assoc($musicians));
mysql_free_result($musicians);
?>
I recommend basing your code on the mailing list example provided with PHPMailer.
You're doing most things right - initialising PHPMailer first and setting properties that are common to all messages, but one key thing is missing:
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
Without this it means that it closes and reopens a connection for every message, and you're mostly likely running into connection rate limits.
you're also using the combination of Port= 587 and SMTPSecure = 'ssl' which will generally not work; switch to Port = 465.
I'd also recommend against the do/while loop - it will fail if your database query fails to find anything because it's bottom-tested and thus will always run once, even if there is no data. Use a while or foreach loop instead.
The mailing list example does all of these things already.
Final thing - if this is all your code, it looks like you're running an old version of PHPMailer, so get the latest.
I am using PHPMailer to send the smtp emails. If I use the same setting in a WordPress site, it works fine. But my priority is to use in a custom php page. And there, it is giving the following errors
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
My Code is here below
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require 'emails/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 587;
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "mzubim#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('mzubim#gmail.com', 'Zubair Mushtaq');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('replyto#gmail.com', 'Secure Developer');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('abulogics#gmail.com', 'Abulogicss');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer SMTP test';
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML("convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body");
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
try this its working fine
<?php
include "emails/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php";
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('mzubim#gmail.com', 'Zubair Mushtaq');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('replyto#gmail.com', 'Secure Developer');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('abulogics#gmail.com', 'Abulogicss');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer SMTP test';
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML("convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body");
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
the PHPMailer docs says that if it
-> //TCP port to connect to; use 587 if you have set SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS
And in your case u used ssl.
Consider increasing the debugging whilst you have the problem:
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_LOWLEVEL ;
(see PHPMailer Debug messages)
My issue finally turned out to be the ports on my mail requesting server were not open to even get to the mail server (i.e. fix the firewall).
Does anybody have idea why my phpmailer dont want to send attachments? There are no errors, I tried every possible file location, and i'm still receiving just plain text mails...
require '../phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
require '../phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
// Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
// Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->Host = 'serwerxxx.home.pl'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
// SMTP username
$mail->Username = 'my#mail'; // SMTP username // SMTP password
$mail->Password = 'mypass'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 465; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->From = 'my#mail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
// Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('mail#mail'); // Name is optional
// Add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("c20.jpg", "c20.jpg"); // Optional name // Set email format to HTML
//$mail->AddAttachment("c20.jpg");
//$mail->AddAttachment("../img/c20.jpg");
//$mail->AddAttachment($_SERVER['../img/c20.jpg']));
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the ółsubject'.$imie.' '.$nazwisko;
$mail->Body = 'das'.$format_wydruku1.' '.$ile1.'This is the HTML messagóóęęe body <b>in SŁŁŚŚśśśłłóóbold!</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';
}
Took me a while to figure this out too, for me it was a path problem - this solved it for me:
$mail->AddAttachment($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/rest/of/your/path/to.pdf");
I got a Award Space Mail Hosting account.I created that account only for the free email sending feature.
Tried
PHP mailer
swiftmailer ect..
But no use.Can anyone give me a full working code of php and mail form,so that i can just test it in my server .I cound send emails when using this file :
http://www.html-form-guide.com/php-form/php-form-validation.html
But,i dont want that peace of code.I want a perfect code that can work on My server.
Sample code:(Has an html form submit form)
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$myemail = “support#domain.dx.am”;
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$headers = “From:Contact Form <$myemail>\r\n”;
$headers .= “Reply-To: $name <$email>\r\n”;
echo “Your message has been sent successfully!”;
mail($myemail, $subject, $message, $headers);
} else {
echo “An error occurred during the submission of your message”;
}
?>
Or i tried doing the same with php mailer:
<?php
require 'filefolder/mailer/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'localhost'; // Specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'support#whatever.dx.am'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'mypassword'; // SMTP password
$mail->From = 'support#whatever.dx.am';
$mail->FromName = 'Support';
$mail->AddAddress('anything#gmail.com'… // Name is optional
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
$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: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo 'Message has been sent';
?>
I am doing something wrong. But cant figure out what. Can anyone help me out .
The 'from' header should be an existing email account inside your Email Manager of your Hosting Control Panel.
as their FAQ says:
Tip: Please note that the 'From' header should be an existing email account inside your Email Manager of your Hosting Control Panel.
FAQ
I am trying to use PHPMailer to send a gmail email. I followed this post
In order to do this, I set up a function shown below:
function sendEmail($email, $name) {
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
//IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP I commented it cos it gives an error
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'email#gmail.com'; // Changed my email
$mail->Password = "password";// Changed my password
$mail->From = 'email#gmail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'FROM NAME';
$mail->AddAddress($email);
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "Subject";
$mail->Body = "Body";
if (!$mail->Send()) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
Unfortunately, it keeps on returning false. Can you please tell me whats wrong with the code?
Edit: The error which I am getting is shown below:
SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
UPDATED CODE:
$Mail = new PHPMailer();
$Mail->IsSMTP(); // Use SMTP
$Mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // Sets SMTP server
$Mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // 2 to enable SMTP debug information
$Mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE; // enable SMTP authentication
$Mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; //Secure conection
$Mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port
$Mail->Username = EMAIL; // SMTP account username
$Mail->Password = PASS; // SMTP account password
$Mail->Priority = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
$Mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$Mail->Encoding = '8bit';
$Mail->Subject = 'SUB';
$Mail->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n';
$Mail->From = EMAIL;
$Mail->FromName = 'FROM NAME';
$Mail->WordWrap = 900; // RFC 2822 Compliant for Max 998 characters per line
$Mail->AddAddress($email); // To:
$Mail->isHTML(TRUE);
$Mail->Body = "Hi";
$Mail->AltBody = "Hi";
$Mail->Send();
$Mail->SmtpClose();
Here is a working example:
<?php
function SendMail( $ToEmail, $MessageHTML, $MessageTEXT ) {
require_once ( 'class.phpmailer.php' ); // Add the path as appropriate
$Mail = new PHPMailer();
$Mail->IsSMTP(); // Use SMTP
$Mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // Sets SMTP server
$Mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // 2 to enable SMTP debug information
$Mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE; // enable SMTP authentication
$Mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; //Secure conection
$Mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port
$Mail->Username = 'MyGmail#gmail.com'; // SMTP account username
$Mail->Password = 'MyGmailPassword'; // SMTP account password
$Mail->Priority = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
$Mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$Mail->Encoding = '8bit';
$Mail->Subject = 'Test Email Using Gmail';
$Mail->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n';
$Mail->From = 'MyGmail#gmail.com';
$Mail->FromName = 'GMail Test';
$Mail->WordWrap = 900; // RFC 2822 Compliant for Max 998 characters per line
$Mail->AddAddress( $ToEmail ); // To:
$Mail->isHTML( TRUE );
$Mail->Body = $MessageHTML;
$Mail->AltBody = $MessageTEXT;
$Mail->Send();
$Mail->SmtpClose();
if ( $Mail->IsError() ) { // ADDED - This error checking was missing
return FALSE;
}
else {
return TRUE;
}
}
$ToEmail = 'Name#example.com';
$ToName = 'Name';
$Send = SendMail( $ToEmail, $MessageHTML, $MessageTEXT );
if ( $Send ) {
echo "<h2> Sent OK</h2>";
}
else {
echo "<h2> ERROR</h2>";
}
die;
?>
I tried this script and had no problem sending several messages.
UPDATED:
This is the typical response from Gmail on success:
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 mx.google.com ESMTP 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [181.155.13.39]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [181.155.13.39]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.0 OK 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.5 OK 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Go ahead 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.0.0 OK 1353474062 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:221 2.0.0 closing connection 20sm6345523qek.6
Your Code is not working because you did not set the SMTPSecure option to ssl which is required for gmail account
include_once "/lib/phpmailer/PHPMailer.class.php";
include_once "/lib/phpmailer/SMTP.class.php";
include_once "/lib/phpmailer/POP3.class.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();
try {
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; //<----------------- You missed this
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465; //
$mail->Username = "xxxxxx#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "xxxxxx";
$mail->AddAddress('to#example.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->SetFrom('xxxxxx#gmail.com', 'First Last');
$mail->Subject = 'This is a TEST message';
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!';
$body = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // automatically
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent OK</p>\n";
} catch ( phpmailerException $e ) {
echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch ( Exception $e ) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
Output
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 mx.google.com ESMTP q22sm2927759bkv.16
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [62.173.54.190] 250-SIZE 35882577 250-8BITMIME 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.0 OK q22sm2927759bkv.16
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.5 OK q22sm2927759bkv.16
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Go ahead q22sm2927759bkv.16
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.0.0 OK 1353341553 q22sm2927759bkv.16
Message Sent OK
In such kinds of issues it is important to check how it runs on development environment before you deploy to production, since there are many server issues that might be related to the problem.
Because of that before anything set debug to true and check the messages you get.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
That said, common server issues in such situations are the following.
Lack of SSL support in PHP. You must enable it.
Some kind of firewall might be blocking you from connecting to outbound sockets. You can check that using PHP.
-
$p = fsockopen( '127.0.0.1', <port number>, $errno, $errstr, 5 );
if ( !$p )
// port is closed or blocked
else
// port is open and available
fclose( $p );`
Try...
<?php
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$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 = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourname#yourdomain"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // SMTP account password
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddAddress('whoto#otherdomain.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->Subject = 'This is a TEST Message';
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML($obdy);
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer.gif'); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); // attachment
$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent OK</p>\n";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
?>
Just replace with your configuration, set the require_once('class.phpmailer.php'); to point to the right place and replace 'contents.html' your HTML template.
or
Use this code if you choose not to use an HTML template...
<?php
$body ='Your HTML message should go here';
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$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 = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourname#yourdomain"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // SMTP account password
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddAddress('whoto#otherdomain.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->Subject = 'This is a TEST message';
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer.gif'); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); // attachment
$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent OK</p>\n";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
?>
$mail = new PHPMailer();
// Set up SMTP
$mail->IsSMTP(); // Sets up a SMTP connection
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // This will print debugging info
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Connection with the SMTP does require authorization
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // Connect using a TLS connection
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Encoding = '7bit'; // SMS uses 7-bit encoding
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
// Authentication
$mail->Username = "xxx#xxx.xxx.xx"; // Login
$mail->Password = "xxxxxx"; // Password
//$to=
$to = "zzz#zzz.zzz.zz";
$mail->Subject = "Outstanding Balance Notification "; // Subject (which isn't required)
$mail->Body = "Dear Sir / Madam";
$mail->FromName = "stackoverflow";
$mail->From = "noreply#xxx.xxx.xx";
$mail->AddAddress($row["Email1"]);
try this.. :)
I have send mail from xampp server from localhost
This code is perfectly work for me
1: down load phpmailer from https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
2: go to xampp and search php.ini
3 In php.ini search
;extension=php_openssl.dll
remove(;)
extension=php_openssl.dll
then save and restart p.c. its work
<%php <br/>
require_once("C:\\xampp\\phpMailer\\PHPMailer-master\\class.phpmailer.php"); <br/>
$mail = new PHPMailer(); <br/>
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP <br/>
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication <br/>
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl' ; <br/>
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com" ;// SMTP server <br/>
$mail->Port = 465; // or 587 <br/>
$mail->Username = 'senderemailid#gmail.com'; // SMTP username <br/>
$mail->Password = 'senderpassword'; // SMTP password <br/>
$mail -> IsHTML(true); <br/>
$mail->From = 'senderemailid#gmail.com'; <br/>
$mail->FromName = 'sendername'; <br/>
$mail->addAddress('receiveremailid#domain.com','receivername'); <br/>
$mail->WordWrap = 50; <br/>
$mail->Subject = "This mail send from PhP code xampp"; <br/>
$mail->Body = "Hi! \n\n This is my first e-mail sent through PHPMailer."; <br/>
if(!$mail->Send()) { <br/>
echo 'Message was not sent.'; <br/>
echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo; <br/>
} else <br/>
{ <br/>
echo 'Message has been sent.'; <br/>
} <br/>
?> <br/>
2019 Update phpMailer with Gmail
I know this is an old question but it still comes up in Google and I need to update the answer to this.
If you are experience the issue (where many do) with phpmailer that it only works when you comment out IsSMTP() when trying to use gmail's SMTP then here is why.
When you comment out IsSMTP() you are telling phpmailer NOT TO USE SMTP which by default phpmailer will send the request to your local mail() instead. If you look at the emails sent at this point and look at the header of the email you will see that it is coming from your local server and not the address/domain you are trying to send it as. So yes commenting out IsSMTP() will make it work, but it really isn't. And sending from your local server that is not setup correctly will most likely result in your emails going to spam.
So how do I fix this
Plain and simple you most likely are using an old version of phpmailer, you need a newer version. The easy way to tell this is how you set your From address. If it looks like this $mail->From = "name#example.com" then you are using an old version.
The newest versions of phpmailer defines From as $mail->setFrom("name#example.com", "First Last"). If you see that then you are using a newer version of phpmailer.
How to do it right and actually make it work
Please make sure that you have TCP OUT port for 587 on your firewall
SMTP Gmail will only work with tls/587 AND NOT ssl/465 (ssl is 1990's)
Make sure that you have allow less secure apps set correctly within gmail. If you are using a G Suite account then you will have to have your admin enable it if it isn't already.
This is a perfect example how to use the new phpmailer with gmail smtp (and yes it does work, if not then something is wrong on your end)
How to install phpmailer
First download the latest version of phpmailer
There are 2 ways to install it. Composer or manual. The manual way all you need is
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer; <-- make sure these are not in a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'path/src/Exception.php';
require 'path/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'path/src/SMTP.php';
EXAMPLE
<?php
/**
* This example shows settings to use when sending via Google's Gmail servers.
* This uses traditional id & password authentication - look at the gmail_xoauth.phps
* example to see how to use XOAUTH2.
* The IMAP section shows how to save this message to the 'Sent Mail' folder using IMAP commands.
*/
//Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'path/src/Exception.php';
require 'path/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'path/src/SMTP.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// use
// $mail->Host = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');
// if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "username#gmail.com";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'First Last');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('replyto#example.com', 'First Last');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('whoto#example.com', 'John Doe');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'), __DIR__);
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//Attach an image file
$mail->addAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.png');
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
//Section 2: IMAP
//Uncomment these to save your message in the 'Sent Mail' folder.
#if (save_mail($mail)) {
# echo "Message saved!";
#}
}
//Section 2: IMAP
//IMAP commands requires the PHP IMAP Extension, found at: https://php.net/manual/en/imap.setup.php
//Function to call which uses the PHP imap_*() functions to save messages: https://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
//You can use imap_getmailboxes($imapStream, '/imap/ssl') to get a list of available folders or labels, this can
//be useful if you are trying to get this working on a non-Gmail IMAP server.
function save_mail($mail)
{
//You can change 'Sent Mail' to any other folder or tag
$path = "{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}[Gmail]/Sent Mail";
//Tell your server to open an IMAP connection using the same username and password as you used for SMTP
$imapStream = imap_open($path, $mail->Username, $mail->Password);
$result = imap_append($imapStream, $path, $mail->getSentMIMEMessage());
imap_close($imapStream);
return $result;
}
?>