I am using PHPMailer with SMTP to send email. First I just test it from my localhost and it's successfully sent email.
But when I upload the same code to my service it's showing me following error without sending email;
Error Message is :
2016-04-22 05:53:10 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111) 2016-04-22 05:53:10 SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting mail is not send
I do not understand why it's showing me this error message becuase I am using 100% same code.
Here is my email sending script using PHPMailer :
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$m = new PHPMailer();
$m->isSMTP();
$m->SMTPAuth = true;
$m->SMTPDebug = 2;
$m->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$m->Username = 'username';
$m->Password = 'password'; // google app password
$m->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$m->Port = 465;
$m->From = 'from#gmail.com';
$m->FromName = 'Shibbir Ahmed';
$m->addReplyTo('reply#gmail.com', 'Reply Address');
$m->addAddress('to#gmail.com', 'Shibbir Ahmed');
$m->Subject = 'Here is an email';
$m->Body = 'This is email';
$m->AltBody = 'Alt body';
if($m->send()) {
echo 'mail send';
} else {
echo 'mail is not send';
}
Some servers have certain functions disable that a user cannot enable them selves. Check with your hosting provider to see if they have the mail() function enabled.
In this case smtp mail function perfectly working in localhost but not in server..
soo you change the server setting
That link to the troubleshooting guide is there for a reason - if you follow it it will tell you exactly what is wrong: GoDaddy blocks outbound SMTP, so you have to use their mail servers. There are many duplicates of this question, so search before you post.
I've been using PHPMailer for years and have been pretty happy with it, but now I'm trying to get a contact form working with an email address that is domain based but tied to Gmail via Google Apps. I.e. the MX record points to Google. I've added PHPMailer's Gmail example trying to get the setup to work, but at this point, I'm not connecting; I get this message:
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
SMTP connect() failed.
Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
Here's my form processor code:
<?php
/**
* This example shows settings to use when sending via Google's Gmail servers.
*/
// CUSTOM: collect data from our web form
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$tel = $_REQUEST['tel'];
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
//date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require 'mailer/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 - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 465;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "myemailaddress.com";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "mypassword";
//Set who the message is to be sent from
//$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('myemailaddress', 'my name');
//Set the subject line
$mail->subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = "Name : $name\n\n"
. "Email : $email\n"
. "Telephone : $tel\n"
. "Message :\n\n $message\n"
. "";
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
//$mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'), dirname(__FILE__));
//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!";
}
To answer some questions in advance: yes, SSL rather than TLS is enabled in Gmail, and the MX record is changed at the host. I also did comment out some stuff, but as far as I can tell nothing that I need to get the form to actually send.
Beyond that, I don't even qualify as a hack with PHP; my primary skills are design, HTML and CSS, so I'm probably missing something obvious....
Thanks in advance.
I had my website on a dummy server and everything worked great! I transfer my hosting over to GoDaddy and when i send myself an email to check if it works it throws this error:
SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)
The following From address failed: root#localhost : Called Mail() without being connected Mailer Error: The following From address failed: root#localhost : Called Mail() without being connected
As I said it worked on my old host and I already did the necessary stuff on gmail end and my credentials are 100% correct. but not my new 1 do I have to configure the php.ini file?
require_once('includes/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587; // or 587
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "user#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->Subject = "Sponsorship enquiry";
$mail->Body = "<p>Sponsorship form details:</p>";
$mail->Body .= "<p>name: ".$name."</p>";
$mail->Body .= "<p>email: ".$email."</p>";
$mail->Body .= "<p>sport: ".$sport."</p>";
$mail->Body .= "<p>message: ".$message."</p>";
$mail->AddAddress("exeuity#gmail.com");
if(!$mail->Send()){
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else{
$_SESSION['success'] = "Email successfully sent AIM will be in contact with you shortly!";
header("location:athletes.php");
exit();
}
Firstly, update your PHPMailer - your code is based on an old example.
You should also read the troubleshooting docs.
I can see you're not setting a 'from' address, so it's defaulting to root#localhost, and that may be why you're being rejected as that's not a routable address from the outside world, so you should call $mail->setFrom() with sensible values.
GoDaddy is notorious for blocking or rerouting outbound email, so check that you really are talking to gmail - verify the SSL certificate you get when connecting via TLS.
I would like to send an email using Gmail SMTP server through PHP Mailer.
this is my code
<?php
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet="UTF-8";
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = 'MyUsername#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'valid password';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->From = 'MyUsername#gmail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mohammad Masoudian';
$mail->AddAddress('anotherValidGmail#gmail.com');
$mail->AddReplyTo('phoenixd110#gmail.com', 'Information');
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via Sendmail, basic";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!";
$mail->Body = "Hello";
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
but I receive this following error
Mailer Error: SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: anotherValidGmail#gmail.com
SMTP server error: SMTP AUTH is required for message submission on port 587
my domain is vatandesign.ir
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465; // or 587
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "email#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->SetFrom("example#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->Body = "hello";
$mail->AddAddress("email#gmail.com");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}
This code above has been tested and worked for me.
It could be that you needed $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
Also make sure you don't have two step verification switched on for that account as that can cause problems also.
UPDATED
You could try changing $mail->SMTP to:
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
It's worth noting that some SMTP servers block connections.
Some SMTP servers don't support SSL (or TLS) connections.
So I just solved my own "SMTP connection failure" error and I wanted to post the solution just in case it helps anyone else.
I used the EXACT code given in the PHPMailer example gmail.phps file. It worked simply while I was using MAMP and then I got the SMTP connection error once I moved it on to my personal server.
All of the Stack Overflow answers I read, and all of the troubleshooting documentation from PHPMailer said that it wasn't an issue with PHPMailer. That it was a settings issue on the server side. I tried different ports (587, 465, 25), I tried 'SSL' and 'TLS' encryption. I checked that openssl was enabled in my php.ini file. I checked that there wasn't a firewall issue. Everything checked out, and still nothing.
The solution was that I had to remove this line:
$mail->isSMTP();
Now it all works. I don't know why, but it works. The rest of my code is copied and pasted from the PHPMailer example file.
Also worth noting that if you have two factor authentication enabled, you'll need to setup an application specific password to use in place of your email account's password.
You can generate an application specific password by following these instructions:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
Then set $mail->Password to your application specific password.
It seems that your server fails to establish a connection to Gmail SMTP server.
Here are some hints to troubleshoot this:
1) check if SSL correctly configured on your PHP (module that handle it isn't installed by default on PHP. You have to check your configuration in phph.ini).
2) check if your firewall let outgoing calls to the required port (here 465 or 587). Use telnet to do so. If the port isn't opened, you'll then require some support from sysdmin to setup the config.
I hope you'll sort this out quickly!
Google treat Gmail accounts differently depending on the available user information, probably to curb spammers.
I couldn't use SMTP until I did the phone verification. Made another account to double check and I was able to confirm it.
this code working fine for me
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Enable SMTP debugging.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Set PHPMailer to use SMTP.
$mail->isSMTP();
//Set SMTP host name
$mail->Host = $hostname;
//Set this to true if SMTP host requires authentication to send email
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Provide username and password
$mail->Username = $sender;
$mail->Password = $mail_password;
//If SMTP requires TLS encryption then set it
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
//Set TCP port to connect to
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->From = $sender;
$mail->FromName = $sender_name;
$mail->addAddress($to);
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $Subject;
$mail->Body = $Body;
$mail->AltBody = "This is the plain text version of the email content";
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else {
echo 'Mail Sent Successfully';
}
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
If you are using cPanel you should just click the wee box that allows you to send to external servers by SMTP.
Login to CPanel > Tweak Settings > All> "Restrict outgoing SMTP to
root, exim, and mailman (FKA SMTP Tweak)"
As answered here:
"Password not accepted from server: 535 Incorrect authentication data" when sending with GMail and phpMailer
Anderscc has got it correct. Thanks. It worked for me but not 100%.
I had to set
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
Setting it to 1, can cause errors especially if you are passing some data as json to next page. Example - Performing verification if mail is sent, using json to pass data through ajax.
I had to lower my gmail account security settings to get rid of errors:
" SMTP connect() failed " and " SMTP ERROR: Password command failed "
Solution:
This problem can be caused by either 'less secure' applications trying to use the email account (this is according to google help, not sure how they judge what is secure and what is not) OR if you are trying to login several time in a row OR if you change countries (for example use VPN, move code to different server or actually try to login from different part of the world).
Links that fix the problem (you must be logged into google account):
view recent attempts to use the account and accept suspicious access.
link to disable the feature of blocking suspicious apps/technologies:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/security/lesssecureapps
Note:
You can go to the following stackoverflow answer link for more detailed reference.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25175234
I have found a solution and it is working.
Basic settings:
$mail->IsHTML(true);
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
//SMTP::DEBUG_OFF = off (for production use)
//SMTP::DEBUG_CLIENT = client messages
//SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_CLIENT;
//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 = 'user#gmail.com';
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = 'PASSWORD_HERE';
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('email#email.ext', 'From where it is sent');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('email#email.ext', 'Reply To');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('email#email.ext');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'Email subject';
// Body message
$mail->Body = '
<h1>Message details</h1>
';
// Send message
if( $mail->send() ) {
echo "Sent"
} else {
echo "Not Sent";
}
If you've already tried everything, try doing this:
Disable the feature of blocking suspicious apps/technologies https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/security/lesssecureapps
Clear the Captcha https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
Do the test.
Here are some articles of interest that helped me solve this:
https://support.google.com/a/thread/108782439/smtp-error-password-command-failed-535-5-7-8-username-and-password-not-accepted?hl=en&msgid=108963583
https://bobcares.com/blog/phpmailer-smtp-error-password-command-failed/
I just wanted to share my experience with phpMailer , that was working locally (XAMPP) but wasn't working on my hosting provider.
I turned on phpMailer error reporting
$mail->SMTPDebug=2
I got 'Connection refused Error'
I email my host provider for the issue, and they said that they would open the SMTP PORTS 25, 465, 587.
Then I got the following error response "SMTP ERROR: Password command failed:"...."Please log in via your web browser and then try again"...."SMTP Error: Could not authenticate."
So google checks if your are logged in to your account (I was when I ran the script locally through my browser) and then allows you to send mail through the phpMailer script.
To fix that:
1: go to your Google account -> security
2: Scroll to the Key Icon and choose "2 way verification" and follow the procedure
3: When done go back to the key icon from google account -> security and choose the second option "create app passwords" and follow the procedure to get the password.
Now go to your phpMailer object and change your Google password with the password given from the above procedure.
You are done.
The code:
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$phpMailerObj= new PHPMailer();
$phpMailerObj->isSMTP();
$phpMailerObj->SMTPDebug = 0;
$phpMailerObj->Debugoutput = 'html';
$phpMailerObj->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$phpMailerObj->Port = 587;
$phpMailerObj->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$phpMailerObj->SMTPAuth = true;
$phpMailerObj->Username = "YOUR EMAIL";
$phpMailerObj->Password = "THE NEW PASSWORD FROM GOOGLE ";
$phpMailerObj->setFrom('YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS', 'THE NAME OF THE SENDER',0);
$phpMailerObj->addAddress('RECEIVER EMAIL ADDRESS', 'RECEIVER NAME');
$phpMailerObj->Subject = 'SUBJECT';
$phpMailerObj->Body ='MESSAGE';
if (!phpMailerObj->send()) {
echo "phpMailerObjer Error: " . $phpMailerObj->ErrorInfo;
return 0;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
return 1;
}
If anyone there who is not getting a working answer, they can try this.
Note: I am using PHPMailer 5.2.23.
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');
require './Libraries/PHPMailer5/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
// Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "yourWebmailUsermail";
$mail->Password = "yourWebmailPassword";
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
$mail->setFrom('formEmailAddress', 'First Last');
$mail->addAddress('toEmailAddress', 'John Doe');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
$mail->msgHTML("<h1>Hi Test Mail</h1>");
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
I think it is connection issue you can get code here http://skillrow.com/sending-mail-using-smtp-and-php/
include(“smtpfile.php“);
include(“saslfile.php“); // for SASL authentication $from=”my#website.com“; //from mail id
$smtp=new smtp_class;
$smtp->host_name=”www.abc.com“; // name of host
$smtp->host_port=25;//port of host
$smtp->timeout=10;
$smtp->data_timeout=0;
$smtp->debug=1;
$smtp->html_debug=1;
$smtp->pop3_auth_host=””;
$smtp->ssl=0;
$smtp->start_tls=0;
$smtp->localhost=”localhost“;
$smtp->direct_delivery=0;
$smtp->user=”smtp username”;
$smtp->realm=””;
$smtp->password=”smtp password“;
$smtp->workstation=””;
$smtp->authentication_mechanism=””;
$mail=$smtp->SendMessage($from,array($to),array(“From:$from”,”To: $to”,”Subject: $subject”,”Date: ”.strftime(“%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z”)),”$message”);
if($mail){
echo “Mail sent“;
}else{
echo $smtp->error;
}
I am using php mailer class. I am getting :
SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: s_deshmukh88#hotmail.com
$mail = new phpMailer();
$body = "Hello, this is a test mail.";
//$body = preg_replace('/\\\\/','', $body); //Strip backslashes
$mail->IsSMTP(); // tell the class to use SMTP
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
//$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP server port
$mail->Host = "localhost"; // SMTP server
$mail->Username = "localhost"; // SMTP server username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP server password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
//$mail->IsSendmail(); // tell the class to use Sendmail
$mail->AddReplyTo("name#domain.com","First Last");
$mail->From = "name#domain.com";
$mail->FromName = "First Last";
$to = "s_deshmukh88#hotmail.com";
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->Subject = "First PHPMailer Message";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->WordWrap = 80; // set word wrap
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
if($mail->Send()){
echo 'Message has been sent.';
}
What can be the reason ?
Just try to put SMTPAuth to false and Host to'localhost'.
Thanks !! :)
I had this problem using authenticated SMTP. When I tested my mailing from home using xampp but connected to a (shared) server, emails went to users without problems. When I tried the same thing with the PHP on the host server, emails went through to addresses on my account but NOT to external addresses. (Ie. if my address is fred#bloggs.com and I send an email to fred#bloggs.com, it goes through but if I send it to jim#smith.com, it fails) The solution turned out to be to use the full host address when working on my local pc, ie $mail->Host = "mail.fred.bloggs.com", but $mail->Host = "localhost" on the server. May seem perverse but it works.
I just ran into this issue, and in my case, i believe it was the webhost's mail server that was not allowing a non-matching domain name for the From address. So for example, i was using mail.mydomain.com to send mail, but i wanted the from address to be test#test.com
When i switched the from address to test#mydomain.com, then the email was getting sent.