Username and Password not accepted - php

Question

I'm trying to send a email using gmail's smtp (see below code) but I'm getting "Username and Password not accepted" error.
I've tried:
this link
allow less secure apps
ssl is enabled
enable imap/pop on gmail's settings
a different login
none of them works.
Here's the PHP code:
function sendEmail($from, $fromName, $msg)
{
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 4; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->WordWrap = 900; // RFC 2822 Compliant for Max 998 characters per line
$mail->IsSMTP();
//$mail->Host = 'tls://smtp.gmail.com:587';
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587; //465
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'xxxx#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'yyyyyyy';
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $fromName;
$mail->AddAddress('foo#gmail.com', ' ');
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Priority = 1;
$mail->Timeout = 60;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->Subject = "subject here";
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->AltBody = 'testing..';
$ok = $mail->Send();
$mail->ClearAllRecipients();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
return $ok;
}
Update: Here's the full error message (with DebugMode = 4)

Answer 1

After testing I got this to work by changing the host to include the tls prefix.
function sendEmail($from, $fromName, $msg)
{
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 4;
$mail->WordWrap = 900;
$mail->IsSMTP();
//$mail->Host = 'tls://smtp.gmail.com:587';
$mail->Host = "tls://smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587; //465
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'xxxx#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'yyyyyyy';
// Define o remetente
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $fromName;
$mail->AddAddress('foo#gmail.com', ' ');
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Priority = 1;
$mail->Timeout = 60;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true;
$mail->Subject = "subject here";
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->AltBody = 'testing..';
$ok = $mail->Send();
$mail->ClearAllRecipients();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
return $ok;
}