Configuring a working email client from localhost is quite a chore, I have spent hours of frustration attempting it. I’m sure someone more experienced may be able to help, or they may perhaps agree with me. If you just want to test, here is a great tool for testing mail locally, that requires almost no … Read more
all answers are outdated now. Most current version (as of Feb 2018) does not have autoload anymore, and PHPMailer should be initialized as follows: <?php require(“/home/site/libs/PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php”); require(“/home/site/libs/PHPMailer-master/src/SMTP.php”); $mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled … Read more
I encountered this problem. To get it working, I had to go to myaccount.google.com -> “Sign-in & security” -> “Apps with account access”, and turn “Allow less secure apps” to “ON” (near the bottom of the page). Alternatively you can follow this direct link to these settings
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’ => … Read more
A bit late, but perhaps someone will find it useful. Links that fix the problem (you must be logged into google account): https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?hl=en&pli=1 https://www.google.com/settings/u/1/security/lesssecureapps https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha Some explanation of what happens: This problem can be caused by either ‘less secure’ applications trying to use the email account (this is according to google help, not sure how … Read more
PHPMailer uses Exceptions. Try to adopt the following code: require_once ‘../class.phpmailer.php’; $mail = new PHPMailer(true); //defaults to using php “mail()”; the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch try { $mail->AddReplyTo(‘[email protected]’, ‘First Last’); $mail->AddAddress(‘[email protected]’, ‘John Doe’); $mail->SetFrom(‘[email protected]’, ‘First Last’); $mail->AddReplyTo(‘[email protected]’, ‘First Last’); $mail->Subject=”PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), advanced”; … Read more
You must to add a needle headers: Sample code : $headers = “From: [email protected]\r\n”; $headers .= “Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n”; $headers .= “Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n”; $headers .= “CC: [email protected]\r\n”; $headers .= “BCC: [email protected]\r\n”; if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) { echo “The email has been sent!”; } else { echo “The email has failed!”; } ?>
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object $mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // 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; // or 587 $mail->IsHTML(true); $mail->Username = “[email protected]”; $mail->Password … Read more
The problem is simple that the PHP-Mail function is not using a well configured SMTP Server. Nowadays Email-Clients and Servers perform massive checks on the emails sending server, like Reverse-DNS-Lookups, Graylisting and whatevs. All this tests will fail with the php mail() function. If you are using a dynamic ip, its even worse. Use the … Read more
I know this is an older issue, but I recently had the same problem and was having issues resolving it, despite attempting the DisplayUnlockCaptcha fix. This is how I got it alive. Head over to Account Security Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps) and enable “Access for less secure apps”, this allows you to use the google smtp for … Read more