SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. PHPMailer. PHP [duplicate] - php

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PHPMailer is not working and throwing following error.
2017-12-04 13:34:14 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP y19sm20173980pgv.19 - gsmtp
2017-12-04 13:34:14 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO solutions.proprompt.com
2017-12-04 13:34:14 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [103.58.144.11]250-SIZE 35882577250-8BITMIME250-STARTTLS250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES250-PIPELINING250-CHUNKING250 SMTPUTF8
2017-12-04 13:34:14 CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS
2017-12-04 13:34:14 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
2017-12-04 13:34:14 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2017-12-04 13:34:15
2017-12-04 13:34:15
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
It was working properly before. I have used following lines of code:
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // 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 = 'some#email.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'somepassword'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587;
Can anyone tell me where it went wrong?

Answer 1

After hours of struggling , I found your answer to be correct,
Those who are facing issues with PHPMailer and godaddy linux hosting server have to some simple changes ,
host = 'localhost'
and add the below lines
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
should work

Answer 2

Following lines of code solved this issue.
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);

Answer 3

Followed code worked for me:
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();// Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->CharSet = "utf-8";// set charset to utf8
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;// Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';// Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';// Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->Port = 587;// TCP port to connect to
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
$mail->isHTML(true);// Set email format to HTML
$mail->Username = 'Sender Email';// SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'Sender Email Password';// SMTP password
$mail->setFrom('MAIL_USERNAME', 'Test');//Your application NAME and EMAIL
$mail->Subject = 'Test';//Message subject
$mail->MsgHTML('HTML code');// Message body
$mail->addAddress('User Email', 'User Name');// Target email
$mail->send();