Sending mails using Mandrill PHPmailer is not working - php

Question

I want to use Mandrill for sending my emails. I am customizing my phpmailer which I had used to send the mail with mandrill phpmailer. (found here: http://help.mandrill.com/entries/23737696-How-do-I-send-with-PHPMailer- )
require 'mandrillmailer/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.mandrillapp.com'; // Specify main and backup server
$mail->Port = 587; // Set the SMTP port
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'MANDRILL_USERNAME'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'MANDRILL_APIKEY'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Your From name';
$mail->AddAddress($to); // Add a recipient
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
echo $mail->Subject;
//$mail->Send();
//$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo 'hiii';
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
else{
echo 'hello';
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
die('here');
I am not getting response messages i.e mail is sent or not. I debugged where it is getting stuck by echo statements. I can see the messages till echo $mail->Subject; but not beyond that. I am guessing that $mail->Send() is not working that's why messages beyond that are not displaying and email sending is not working.
How do I fix that?

Answer 1

Assuming you've put in the proper authorization, try it by requiring the autoloader rather than phpmailer class. This worked for me:
require 'mandrillmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
Alternatively you could try something a little easier. Something like the official Mandrill PHP client or a separate service like sendwithus.

Answer 2

First of all check the PHPMailer class version If Its below Version 5 then use the latest version 5.2.9
My issue resolved as I used the Version 5.2.9