I have installed php mailer using composer composer require phpmailer/phpmailer. I followed instructions from this website https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-send-an-email-using-phpmailer.
Below is my code for sending email.
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try
{
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'mail.example.in';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'username';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->setFrom('owner#gmail.com', 'Owner');
$mail->addAddress('receipent#gmail.com');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Hello this is subject";
$mail->Body = "Hello this is message;
$mail->send();
echo "Mail has been sent successfully!";
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
When I comment $mail->isSMTP(); and send mail, I get the result as message sent but I dont get it in my Gmail inbox.
when I uncomment $mail->isSMTP(); I get error message as shown in below image.
My project is hosted in godaddy server.
Even if I use php mail() function to send mail, response is mail send successfully, but it does not get delivered into my Gmail inbox
If you want to use Gmail, you should follow the steps here to manually add Google MX records to your GoDaddy account:
https://uk.godaddy.com/help/point-my-domains-email-service-to-google-7936
Unfortunately it takes some days for changes to be reflected.
Then you need to disable security features, change your php mailer config like:
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Port = 25;
Hope this solves.
------EDIT------
Later I figured out that the emails go to spam folder when the port is 25. I changed the connection to TLS and now I receive them as normal.
Here is the code from my website, it works on Godaddy, I receive e-mails to my gmail account.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'true';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Username = "********#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "**********";
$mail->SetFrom("********#gmail.com");
$mail->AddAddress("********#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = " your subject";
$mail->Body = "your body";
I am trying following code to send mail
but it is showing
Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
and gmail is informing me that Sign-in attempt prevented
<?php
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'sss#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = '*******';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->From = 'abc#gmail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'asdf ';
$mail->addAddress('abc#gmail.com', 'sadf ');
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Using PHPMailer";
$mail->Body = "Hi Iam using PHPMailer library to sent SMTP mail from localhost";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo "Message could not be sent.";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
How to resolve above problem?
Try the following steps:
enable debug mode to catch possible errors
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
also check for SSL support in php configuration file (php.ini)
extension=php_openssl.dll
You need set permission for send mail with gmail.
- Login Google Account
- Go Privacy Page
- Allow third party apps
After try this code:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourusername#gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // GMAIL password
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "whoto#otherdomain.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
Since you are getting email from Google, it describes the email is trying to send but it is blocked by Google. Do the following steps.
I hope this helps.
Check if IMAP is enabled
Check here and enable less secure apps
Display Unlock Captcha
change the following in your code
isSMTP() to IsSMTP() , addAddress() to AddAddress() & isHTML() to IsHTML().
and yes check the ports also. sometoimes port also off which do not let connection to be established.
Hope it will work!
I think you have to enable POP and IMAP in you gamil. Try this
Sign in to Gmail
Click the gear in the top right.
Select Settings.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Select Enable IMAP.
Click Save Changes.
<?
$account="email_address#gmail.com";
$password="accountpassword";
$to="mail#subinsb.com";
$from="email_address#gmail.com";
$from_name="Name";
$msg="<strong>This is a bold text.</strong>"; // HTML message
$subject="Database Backup";
/*End Config*/
include("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth= true;
$mail->Port = 465; // Or 587
$mail->Username= $account;
$mail->Password= $password;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName= $from_name;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->addAddress($to);
if(!$mail->send()){
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}else{
echo "E-Mail has been sent";
}
?>
I am new to PHP. I was trying to send myself a sample e-mail through PHPmailer. I am using gmail's smtp server. I am trying to send a sample mail from my gmail account to my yahoo account. But I am getting the error : Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
Here is the code :
<?php
require "class.phpmailer.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "myemail#gmail.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "mypassword"; // SMTP password
$webmaster_email = "myemail#gmail.com"; //Reply to this email ID
$email="myyahoomail#yahoo.in"; // Recipients email ID
$name="My Name"; // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->FromName = "My Name";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"My Name");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi,
This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
I am using WAMP server on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. What could be the prob?
Please help me solve this. Thanks!
The solution of this problem is really very simple. actually Google start using a new authorization mechanism for its User.. you might have seen another line in debug console prompting you to log into your account using any browser.! this is because of new XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism which google start using since 2014.
remember.. do not use the ssl over port 465, instead go for tls over 587. this is just because of XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism. if you use ssl over 465, your request will be bounced back.
what you really need to do is .. log into your google account and open up following address
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
and check turn on . you have to do this for letting you to connect with the google SMTP because according to new authentication mechanism google bounce back all the requests from all those applications which does not follow any standard encryption technique.. after checking turn on.. you are good to go..
here is the code which worked fine for me..
require_once 'C:\xampp\htdocs\email\vendor\autoload.php';
define ('GUSER','youremail#gmail.com');
define ('GPWD','your password');
// make a separate file and include this file in that. call this function in that file.
function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body) {
global $error;
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = GUSER;
$mail->Password = GPWD;
$mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AddAddress($to);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
$error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo;
return false;
} else {
$error = 'Message sent!';
return true;
}
}
You need to add the Host parameter
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
Also, check if you have open_ssl enabled.
<?php
echo !extension_loaded('openssl')?"Not Available":"Available";
Solved an almost identical problem, by adding these lines to the standard PHPMailer configuration. Works like a charm.
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->Mailer = “smtp”; // don't change the quotes!
Came across this code (from Simon Chen) while researching a solution here, https://webolio.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/phpmailer-and-smtp-on-1and1-shared-hosting/#comment-89
Troubleshooting
You have add this code:
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
And Enabling Allow less secure apps:
"will usually solve the problem for PHPMailer, and it does not really make your app significantly less secure. Reportedly, changing this setting may take an hour or more to take effect, so don't expect an immediate fix"
This work for me!
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->isSendMail(); // instead of isSMTP();
On shared hosting, your mail server may occasionally experience connection issues.
Here I found solution
[Edit]
Here is the link content, in case the link stop working for some reason (it happens)
PHPMailer and SMTP on 1and1 shared hosting
I use PHPMailer on my 1and1 shared hosting account. Recently, I could not send email anymore.
I tried debugging and this is the error that PHPMailer throws:
Language string failed to load: connect_host
After googling for a solution and trying different SMTP servers, accounts and SMTP ports, I decided to switch to sendmail and it worked like a charm! All I needed to do was to replace $mail->isSmtp() with:
$mail->isSendMail()
sendMail is located in its default location on 1and1 servers : /usr/sbin/sendmail, so no change of settings was required.
Conclusion:
1and1 probably closed its outgoing SMTP ports on its shared hosting servers. Consequently, if you use PHPMailer, don’t use SMTP mode anymore.
If anyone is still unable to solve the issue, please check following thread and follow callmebob's answer.
PHPMailer - SMTP ERROR: Password command failed when send mail from my server
I fixed it ...
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/5.2-stable
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // 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 = 'm7#gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'pass'; // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 25; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom('m7#gmail.com', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress('dot#gmail.com', 'User'); // Add a recipient
$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>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
Turn on access and enjoy..! That is on Gmail account setting.
You are missing the directive that states the connection uses SSL
require ("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn of SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "YAHOO ACCOUNT"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "YAHOO ACCOUNT PASSWORD"; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "YAHOO HOST"; // SMTP host
$mail->Port = 465;
Then add in the other parts
$webmaster_email = "myemail#gmail.com"; //Reply to this email ID
$email="myyahoomail#yahoo.in"; // Recipients email ID
$name="My Name"; // Recipient's name
$mail->From = $webmaster_email;
$mail->FromName = "My Name";
$mail->AddAddress($email,$name);
$mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"My Name");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi,
This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
As a side note, I have had trouble using Body + AltBody together although they are supposed to work. As a result, I wrote the following wrapper function which works perfectly.
<?php
require ("class.phpmailer.php");
// Setup Configuration for Mail Server Settings
$email['host'] = 'smtp.email.com';
$email['port'] = 366;
$email['user'] = 'from#email.com';
$email['pass'] = 'from password';
$email['from'] = 'From Name';
$email['reply'] = 'replyto#email.com';
$email['replyname'] = 'Reply To Name';
$addresses_to_mail_to = 'email1#email.com;email2#email.com';
$email_subject = 'My Subject';
$email_body = '<html>Code Here</html>';
$who_is_receiving_name = 'John Smith';
$result = sendmail(
$email_body,
$email_subject,
$addresses_to_mail_to,
$who_is_receiving_name
);
var_export($result);
function sendmail($body, $subject, $to, $name, $attach = "") {
global $email;
$return = false;
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
try {
$mail->Host = $email['host']; // SMTP server
// $mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = $email['host']; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = $email['port']; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Username = $email['user']; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = $email['pass']; // SMTP account password
$mail->AddReplyTo($email['reply'], $email['replyname']);
if(stristr($to,';')) {
$totmp = explode(';',$to);
foreach($totmp as $destto) {
if(trim($destto) != "") {
$mail->AddAddress(trim($destto), $name);
}
}
} else {
$mail->AddAddress($to, $name);
}
$mail->SetFrom($email['user'], $email['from']);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
if(is_array($attach)) {
foreach($attach as $attach_f) {
if($attach_f != "") {
$mail->AddAttachment($attach_f); // attachment
}
}
} else {
if($attach != "") {
$mail->AddAttachment($attach); // attachment
}
}
$mail->Send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
$return = $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) {
$return = $e->errorMessage();
}
return $return;
}
if everything fails then for gmail you must turn on access to 3rd party apps to connect to ur gmail account.
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps // turn it
on
Just make sure you passed the right parameters
eg. the correct outgoing server host, username, and password
$mail->SMTPDebug = false;
$mail->Host = 'email_smtp_host'
$mail->SMTPAuth = false
$mail->Username = 'username'
$mail->Password = 'password'
$mail->SMTPSecure 'tls'
$mail->Port = '587'
If you're using VPS and with httpd service, please check if your httpd_can_sendmail is on.
getsebool -a | grep mail
to set on
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on
Try adding this line to your script. This worked for me!
$mail->Mailer = “smtp”;
This is usually a result of the server not accepting SSLv2 or SSLv3 connections which is a standard for cPanel/WHM in favor of TLS only connections. You can check this by going to WHM>>Service Configuration>>Exim Configuration Manager -> Options for OpenSSL
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require_once "PHPMailer/src/Exception.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail ->isSMTP();
$mail ->Host ="smtp.gmail.com";
$mail -> SMTPAuth = true;
$mail ->Username = 'youremail#gmail.com';
$mail ->Password = 'password';
//$mail ->SMTPSecure=PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail ->Port = '587';
$mail ->SMTPSecure ='tls';
$mail ->isHTML(true);
$mail ->setFrom('youremail#gmail.com','email send name');
$mail ->addAddress('receiver#gmail.com');
$mail ->Subject = 'HelloWorld';
$mail ->Body = 'a test email';
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
if ($mail->send()){
echo "Message has been sent successfully";
}else{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>
make sure that you configure less secure app settings in gmail using this link https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and make sure you downloaded PHPMailer-master.zip from github
working fine with MAMP server locally :)
After days of searching, I found out that the protocol name needs to be in lowercase.
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; # lowercase
find the "class.smtp.php" file
original:
$this->smtp_conn =fsockopen(
$host,
$port,
$errno,
$errstr,
$timeout
);
change to:
$this->smtp_conn = #stream_socket_client(
$host,
$port,
$errno,
$errstr,
$timeout
);
I manage to sent message to my gmail account using phpmailer library through local
host in my xampp but the message has 'root user' shown instead of the gmail account set to $mail->SetFrom how to remove this 'root user' and show the appropriate name.
<?php
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Username = "georgediamei1234#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com'; // SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->FromName ='georgediamei1234#gmail.com';
$mail->AddAddress("nowtonkhurai#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = "";
$mail->Body = "Hello, <b>Is photo attached</b>!\n\n This message uses HTML entities!";
$mail->addStringAttachment("$string","08DsAlg.pdf", "base64","application/pdf");
if($mail->send()) {
echo "Email sent";
} else {
echo 'Not send '.$mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'Mailer');
I also got stumbled with that root problem. You have to set a mail id and a name in setFrom property. As the question was asked 2 years ago it might not be helpful to you but it might help others who get stuck with the same stuff.
use both function for name and email address like this :
$mail->From = "from#example.com";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
I have a server with mail support, say example.com. I configured the server and added MX records via cpanel, so that I can receive and send mails via outlook.com with address myaddr#example.com. The MX records are got from domains.live.com.
Now I need to send mail programmatically using PHP using SMTP. I tried PHPmailer using the following script. But it is showing the error
Mailer Error: SMTP Connect() failed.
(But I can send and receive emails via outlook.com using myaddr#example.com)
$body = $_POST['message'];
$to = "support#example.org";
$from = 'fromAddress#gmail.com';
$fName = 'first name';
$lName = 'last name';
$subject = 'my subject';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
// $body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->Host = "mail.example.org"; // SMTP server example
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "myaddr#example.org"; // SMTP account username example
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->SetFrom($from, $fName.' '.$lName);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->AddAddress($to, "Support Team");
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
How can I resolve the issue.
Finally I just solved the issue by replacing some of the settings as below and it worked :).
$mail->Host = "smtp-mail.outlook.com"; // SMTP server example
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';