PHP mailer SMTP connect() failed. (03/01/2018) - php

Question

I got some problem when I try to use PHPMailer code.
This code still works on Oct/2017 but not work since Dec/2017 to now.
I tried to find other similar question but time seems too odd, or it doesn't help.
I didn't change any code inside since I finished.
but error appeared when time passed.
And I got this error:
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
when I try to find it on troubleshotting, it says it might cause by localhost.
Here is my code:
function mailsend($email,$accepter,$title,$content){
include_once("../lib/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->CharSet = "utf-8";
$mail->Encoding = "base64";
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->Username = "myaccount#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "mygmail_account_password";
$mail->From = "sender#gmail.com";
$mail->FromName = "sender_name";
$mail->Subject = $title;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mailList =
array(
array($email,$accepter)
);
foreach ($mailList as $receiver) {
$mail->AddAddress($receiver[0], $receiver[1]);
$mail->Body = $content;
if($mail->Send()) {
// echo"<script>alert('success_sended');</script>";
} else {
echo $mail->ErrorInfo;
echo "<br>";
}
$mail->ClearAddresses();
}
}
If I want to change some code to make it work again
where can I start?
Cheers for taking a look.

Answer 1

I had the same Error but with Yandex,try adding the following:
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->Mailer = “smtp”; // don't change the quotes!
See more here https://stackoverflow.com/a/48010266