Swiftmailer with gmail

Question

So I am trying to use swiftmailer to send emails using a gmail account. I know there are questions that address this issue, but none of the proposed solutions have helped me. My problem is that when I run my code I get "PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Swift_TransportException' with message 'Expected response code 250 but got code "535", with message "535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted." I know that my password and username are correct, and the Google two-step verification is not enabled. Here is my code:

require_once 'vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift.php'; Swift::registerAutoload();

require_once 'vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swift_required.php';
require_once 'vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swift_init.php';

$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 587, 'tls')
    ->setUsername ('myemail@gmail.com')
    ->setPassword ('mypassword');

$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);    

$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Weekly Hours')
    ->setFrom (array('myemail@gmail.com' => 'My Name'))
    ->setTo (array('recipient@hotmail.com' => 'Recipient'))
    ->setSubject ('Weekly Hours')
    ->setBody ($data, 'text/html');

$result = $mailer->send($message);

Note that I have also tried port 465 with 'lss' encryption. Thanks in advance.

Looks like there is an uncaught exception. Can you tell the script and line in which the error is occurring? — Tanmay Kumar, Apr 15 '15 at 08:09
Can you [check to see if this is enabled on your Gmail account](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en)? — sjagr, Apr 28 '15 at 14:19
possible duplicate of [Send email using the GMail SMTP server from a PHP page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/712392/send-email-using-the-gmail-smtp-server-from-a-php-page) — Madan Sapkota, Apr 29 '15 at 07:14

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '15 at 07:07

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The problem could be related to the fact that google can use a range of IPs.

I solved the problem in my case with something like this:

 #get the host dynamically
 $smtp_host_ip = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');

 #set the transport
 $transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance($smtp_host_ip,465,'ssl')->setUsername('myemail@gmail.com')->setPassword('mypassword');

I hope it helps.

answered Apr 29 '15 at 07:07

Masiorama

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If it received a response and error code, it obviously was able to connect to the server. (Besides, I tried this and it didn't work.) – Chloe May 20 '16 at 06:07

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