PHPMailer Failed to connect to server - Settings are correct - php

Question

I am testing SMTP on my server, using PHPMailer.
SMTP server works fine, on my VBulletin forums, but on my own website engine (from localhost, but port 80 is open, so I am doing it via my ip) I get the following errors:
2014-04-14 12:14:18 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: SMTP connect() failed.
I asked my mate, whom is the manager of the server, he says that there are no connections that are coming from my IP.
My PHPMailer settings:
public function create() {
$mailer = new PHPMailer();
$mailer->isSMTP();
$mailer->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mailer->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mailer->host = Config::$SMTP_HOST;
$mailer->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mailer->SMTPAuth = true;
$mailer->Port = Config::$SMTP_PORT;
$mailer->Username = Config::$SMTP_USER;
$mailer->Password = Config::$SMTP_PASS;
return $mailer;
}
// SMTP details
public static $SMTP_PORT = 25;
public static $SMTP_HOST = "argonite.net";
public static $SMTP_USER = "recover#argonite.net";
public static $SMTP_PASS = "password";
public static $RECOVER_EMAIL = "recover#argonite.net";
And this is how I use it:
$mailer = (new MailFactory())->create();
$mailer->addAddress($email, $username);
$mailer->setFrom(Config::$RECOVER_EMAIL, "Recover");
$mailer->Subject = "Password Recovery - DO NOT REPLY";
$mailer->AltBody = "Argonite has sent you your password as requested.";
$mailer->msgHTML($this->buildMessage($username, $this->getPassword($username, $email)));
if (!$mailer->send()) {
$fh = fopen("logs/.mailer", 'a');
fwrite($fh, "\n[" . date("Y-m-d H:i:s") . "]: " . $mailer->ErrorInfo . "\n");
fclose($fh);
return "An error has occured while sending your request. Administrators have been notified.";
}
else {
return "success";
}
Why is it failing? Could it be something with my PHPMailer settings, version or my Apache/php configurations?
php: 5.5.9

Answer 1

Fixed - I don't really know how but that's the settings I set:
$mailer->SMTPSecure = "none";
$mailer->host = Config::$SMTP_HOST;
$mailer->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mailer->SMTPAuth = false;
$mailer->Port = Config::$SMTP_PORT;
$mailer->Username = Config::$SMTP_USER;
$mailer->Password = Config::$SMTP_PASS;
After adding secure = "none" and auth = false, and port 25, it worked.