Sending mail with PHPMailer - php

Question

Im trying to send bulk of emails containing passwords to the students taking an exam in a particular subject.Now, Im having an error "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error () SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host." What could possibly be the problem?
my code as follows:
<?php
//error_reporting(E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_STRICT);
//date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');
require_once('PHPMailer-phpmailer-5.2.0/class.phpmailer.php');
include("PHPMailer-phpmailer-5.2.0/class.smtp.php"); //optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; // SMTP connection will not close after each email sent
$mail->Host = "mail.yahoo.com"; // sets the SMTP server*/
$mail->Port = 26;
$mail->Username = "***********#yahoo.com"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "****************"; // SMTP account password
$mail->From = "*************#yahoo.com";
$mail->FromName = "Exam System";
//$mail->IsHTML(true);
while ($row_email = mysql_fetch_array ($email)) {
$mail->Subject = "Subject: ".$row_email['subject_description']."";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->Body = "This is your password for ".$row_email['exam_title']." : ".$row_email['pass_password']."";
$mail->AddAddress($row_email['stud_email']);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error (" . str_replace("#", "#", $row_email['stud_email']) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br />';
} else {
echo "Message sent to :" . $row_email['stud_email'] . ' (' . str_replace("#", "#", $row_email['stud_email']) . ')<br />';
}
// Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop
$mail->ClearAddresses();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
}
mysql_free_result($email);
?>

Answer 1

Try this...
add this code for Set secutiry
// if you're using SSL
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
// OR use TLS
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';

Answer 2

Try with gmail, as i am not aware of Yahoo's SMTP server. [Also, use the gmail credentials (username, password)]
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

Answer 3

function SendMailWithGmailSMTP($author, $email, $text)
{
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost"; // Sets the SMTP hosts
$mail->Port = 587; // Sets the default SMTP server port.
$mail->SMTPAuth = false; // Sets SMTP authentication. Utilizes the Username and Password variables.
$mail->Username = "...#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "...";
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->FromName = $author;
$mail->CharSet = "ISO-8859-9";
$mail->AddAddress("...#gmail.com");
$mail->Subject = "Hi. This is a Subject!";
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Body = $text;
if($mail->Send()) return true; else echo '<script language="javascript">alert("'.$mail->ErrorInfo.'");</script>';
}
Write this function for send mail and call this function like this:
SendMailWithGmailSMTP("Aziz Yılmaz", "...#gmail.com", "Bla bla bla")