PHPMailer: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host

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Since this questions shows up high in google, I’d like to share here my solution for the case where PHP was just upgraded to version 5.6 (which has stricter SSL behavior).

The PHPMailer wiki has a section on this:

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting#php-56-certificate-verification-failure

The suggested workaround is including the following piece of code:

$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
    'ssl' => array(
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false,
        'allow_self_signed' => true
    )
);

This should work for PHPMailer 5.2.10 (and up).

Note: Obviously, and also as suggested in that wiki, this should be a temporary solution!

The correct fix for this is to replace the invalid, misconfigured or self-signed certificate with a good one.

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