PHP to connect to Hotmail to send email? - php

Question

currently I am trying to use PHPmailer to send email out. Here are the codes below
<?php
require("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // ---------- adjust these lines --------------------------- ------------
$mail->Username = "(username#hotmail.com)"; // your hotmail user name
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->AddAddress"(username#hotmail.com)"; // recipients email
$mail->FromName = "test"; // readable name
$mail->Subject = "Subject title";
$mail->Body = "Here is the message you want to send to your friend.";
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$mail->Host = "smtp.live.com"; // GMail
$mail->Port = 25; $mail->IsSMTP(); // use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->From = $mail->Username;
if(!$mail->Send())
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
else
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
I've tried SSL, port 587 for smtp.live.com with PHPMailer, why doesn't it work?
The error is "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."
I cannot telnet smtp.live.com 25,587.
smtp.gmail.com etc etc.. What should i do? :(

Answer 1

<?php
//error_reporting(E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_STRICT);
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');
require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.live.com"; // sets hotmil as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the hotmail server
$mail->Username = "useyourownemail#hotmail.com"; // hotmail username
$mail->Password = "useyourownpassword"; // hotmail password
$mail->SetFrom('yourname#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo("name#yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (hotmail), basic";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "anemail#domain.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>

Answer 2

Talha answer is works for me. Try to comment $mail->IsSMTP(); and I also commented this part $mail->Port = 587;

Answer 3

port 587 worked for me.
no need to run IsSMTP(). Comment it out as it will throw exceptions.
Dont forget to mark it as answer if it solves your problem :)