PHPMailer SMTP connect() failed. How to resolve? - php

Question

Codeigniter Config:
$config['useragent'] = 'PHPMailer'; // Mail engine switcher: 'CodeIgniter' or 'PHPMailer'
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp'; // 'mail', 'sendmail', or 'smtp'
$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$config['smtp_user'] = 'shahrushabh1996#gmail.com';
$config['smtp_pass'] = '####';
$config['smtp_port'] = 465;
Codeigniter Controller:
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from('shahrushabh1996#gmail.com', 'Webers Infotech');
$this->email->to('shahrushabh1996#gmail.com','Rushabh Shah');
$this->email->subject('Your Subject');
$this->email->message('Your Message');
if (!$this->email->send()) {
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
Can anyone please tell me How can I resolve this issue? Why is it not working?

Answer 1

You can check with the following code:
$this->load->library('email');
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.app.com'; // if via gmail 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com';
$config['smtp_user'] = 'email#dmail.com';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'smtp password';
$config['smtp_port'] = port number;
$config['starttls'] = TRUE;
$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->from('youremail#domain.com');
$this->email->to('to#domain.com');
$this->email->subject('testing');
$this->email->message('Message content');
if($this->email->send()) {
echo 'Message has been sent';
} else {
$this->email->print_debugger();
}
Also check the php_smtp.dll . Is that available or not.
To check that you can use
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
If not found then check on php.ini file and there should be a line as
;extension=php_extname.dll
just remove the ; from this line and restart php service ( restart Apache ).