Can't get PHPMailer working locally - php

Question

I'm using PHPMailer, which works fine on my server, but not on my localhost. The function I'm using to send is:
function sendEmail($mail, $toEmail, $toName, $subject, $message, $noHtmlMessage) {
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'christopherpickardco.netfirms.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'webmaster#christopherpickard.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'myPassword'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom('webmaster#christopherpickard.com', 'ChrisComposes.com'); //
$mail->addAddress($toEmail, $toName); // Add a recipient. Right now this goes to me, in the end it will go to Chris
$mail->addReplyTo('webmaster#christopherpickard.com', 'ChrisComposes.com');
$mail->Subject = "ChrisComposes.com: " . $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->AltBody = $noHtmlMessage;
$mail->send();
}
This works fine on my server but on my localhost I get an error: Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): Peer certificate CN=smtp.eigbox.net' did not match expected CN=christopherpickardco.netfirms.com' in /Users/ChristopherPickard/Web_Development/chriscomposes/includes/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 344
How can I fix this?

Answer 1

From docs:
The correct fix for this is to replace the invalid, misconfigured or
self-signed certificate with a good one. Failing that, you can allow
insecure connections via the SMTPOptions property introduced in
PHPMailer 5.2.10 (it's possible to do this by subclassing the SMTP
class in earlier versions), though this is not recommended:
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
This works.