PHP Mailer Error: Mail Address Not Valid - php

Question

I would like to send an email using Gmail SMTP server through PHP Mailer.
I am running Zend Server Community Edition in my machine.
Following is my code (edited to hide certain confidential information).
require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = "test msg";
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = "587";
$mail->Username = "<valid-id>";
$mail->Password = "<valid-password>";
$mail->SetFrom('a#b.c', 'Name');
$mail->AddReplyTo("a#b.c","Name");
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "d#e.f";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "halo:);
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message sent!";
}
Despite following thoroughly the example from PHP Mailer wiki page, I somehow couldn't manage to send the email accordingly.
This is the error message generated by the function:
SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: A connection attempt
failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a
period of time, or established connection failed because connected
host has failed to respond. (10060) The following From address failed:
a#b.c Mailer Error: The following From address failed: a#b.c
Please advise me regarding this matter. Thank you.

Answer 1

have you tried:
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = "465";
I have changed in your code my emails, my smtp user, my settings ^^^, password and the line:
$mail->AddAddress($address, "Mihai"); // you forgot a quote
used PHPMailer5.2.1 and result:
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 mx.google.com ESMTP gq2sm2073759bkc.13
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [***.***.***.***] 250-SIZE 35882577 250-8BITMIME 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.0 OK gq2sm2073759bkc.13
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.5 OK gq2sm2073759bkc.13
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Go ahead gq2sm2073759bkc.13
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.0.0 OK 1345113839 gq2sm2073759bkc.13
Message sent!
Mail received:
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.1 (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/)