PHPMailer SMTP connect failed - php

Question

I'm trying to send email over Mandrill with PHPMailer but withouth sucess (testing on localhost).
Can someone tell me where is the problem?
This is the verbose information from PHPMailer:
2014-04-27 17:51:06 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 smtp.mandrillapp.com ESMTP
2014-04-27 17:51:06 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO 127.0.0.1
2014-04-27 17:51:06 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-ip-10-107-129-238
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 26214400
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 8BITMIME
2014-04-27 17:51:06 CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS
2014-04-27 17:51:06 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
2014-04-27 17:51:06 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2014-04-27 17:51:16 SERVER -> CLIENT:
2014-04-27 17:51:16 SMTP ERROR: QUIT command failed: SMTP connect() failed. Message could not be sent.
Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
Here is my code:
$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 = 'example#mail.com'; // yes, I have entered my username mail
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx'; // yes, API key is here
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Your From name';
if($test_mode) {
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->AddAddress('mymail#gmail.com');
} else {
$mail->AddAddress($email);
}
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->WordWrap = 70; // Set word wrap to 70 characters
//$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->Subject = 'Subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <strong>in bold!</strong>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->Send()) {
//redirect to
echo 'Message could not be sent.<br>';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
EDIT:
I can delete this:
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
and it will work! But now the encryption is disabled. Why is this not working with encryption enabled?

Answer 1

Uncoment php_openssl.dll in php.ini

Answer 2

Is the timezone set correctly?
include timezone definitions before loading phpmailer
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require '../PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
Also, if you're trying it from a gmail domain, it ught have been blocked. check at: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?hl=pt_BR