Can't send an email using a google apps account with PHPMailer - php

Question

Please note that I'm using a google apps account, NOT a gmail account. I'm trying to simply send an email using my google apps account with php. I am able to send an email in a .net application using the port 587 host smtp.googlemail.com and SSL enabled. The username is my full email address.
require_once('PHPMailer_v5.1\class.phpmailer.php');
try {
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->Mailer = 'smtp';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Host = $host;
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $from;
$mail->Password = $password;
$mail->AddAddress($to, $to_name);
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $from_name;
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
Haven't been able to get this to work, but I've tried several different variations of this.
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Port = 465;
// Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. This is expected as this isn't supported anymore.
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
// Takes forever, then I get "this stream does not support SSL/crypto PHPMailer_v5.1\class.smtp.php"
I don't care how, but I need to send an email using gmail here. It can be with this library or a different one.

Answer 1

This is what we use elsewhere on our website and it works fine.
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = GUSER;
$mail->Password = GPWD;
$mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AddAddress($to);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
$error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo;
return false;
} else {
$error = 'Message sent!';
return true;
}
Edit Also - We have moved away from PHPMailer and have started using SwiftMailer, which also works with gmail (http://www.swiftmailer.org/wikidocs/v3/connections/smtp)