PHPMailer connection issues - php

Question

I want to send a email using php(using windows operating system).However I keep encountering connection issue and that the attachments file are not found.Are there any solutions?
//-------------sending mail----------------------------
//Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
//These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/SMTP.php';
//Create an instance; passing true enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
//Server settings
$mail->isSMTP(); //Send using SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; //Set the SMTP server to send through
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; //Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'username#gmail.com'; //SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'password'; //SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS; //Enable implicit TLS encryption
$mail->Port = 587; //TCP port to connect to; use 587 if you have set `SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS`
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom('hotelpage#gmail.com', 'Hotels Page');
$mail->addAddress('MohanDepesh#gmail.com', 'MohanDepesh'); //Add a recipient
$mail->addReplyTo('no-reply#gmail.com', 'no-reply');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
//Attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); //Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); //Optional name
//Content
$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';
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

Answer 1

Please check following points of you are receiving errors-
1.Check if you are using correct mail and password.
2. There maybe an issue due to "Allow less secure apps" settings.Try to turn on this setting for testing.
Please attach exact error if you are still facing issue.
Edit: As Allow less secure apps is disable now , you can use appPassword for it