Unable to send email in php

Question

I am trying following code to send mail but it is showing

Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

and gmail is informing me that Sign-in attempt prevented

 <?php
    require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

    $mail = new PHPMailer;

    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'sss@gmail.com';
    $mail->Password = '*******';
     $mail->Port =  587;
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
     $mail->From = 'abc@gmail.com';
    $mail->FromName = 'asdf ';
    $mail->addAddress('abc@gmail.com', 'sadf ');

    $mail->WordWrap = 50;
    $mail->isHTML(true);

    $mail->Subject = "Using PHPMailer";
    $mail->Body    = "Hi Iam using PHPMailer library to sent SMTP mail from localhost";

    if(!$mail->send()) {
       echo "Message could not be sent.";
       echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
       exit;
    }

    echo "Message has been sent";
    ?>

How to resolve above problem?

Out of curiosity, have you tried port 465 and 25 **with** ssl? — Torxed, Jan 15 '16 at 09:19
http://stackoverflow.com/a/27982826/876739 this solved my problem — xrcwrn, Jan 15 '16 at 09:37
Possible duplicate of [PHPMailer - SMTP ERROR: Password command failed when send mail from my server](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21937586/phpmailer-smtp-error-password-command-failed-when-send-mail-from-my-server) — gpinkas, Jan 15 '16 at 09:55

rdn87 · Answer 1 · 2016-01-15T09:32:03.727

You need set permission for send mail with gmail.

- Login Google Account
- Go Privacy Page
- Allow third party apps

After try this code:

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host       = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server
$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.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 587;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "yourusername@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";            // GMAIL password

$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic";

$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$address = "whoto@otherdomain.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");


if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

Ah ok, i have the same problem but with Allow third party apps i solved. — rdn87, Jan 15 '16 at 09:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:30

2

Try the following steps:

enable debug mode to catch possible errors
```
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
```
enable SMTP authentication
```
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
```
also check for SSL support in php configuration file (php.ini)
```
extension=php_openssl.dll
```

answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:30

RomanPerekhrest

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:29

1

change the following in your code

isSMTP() to IsSMTP() , addAddress() to AddAddress() & isHTML() to IsHTML().

and yes check the ports also. sometoimes port also off which do not let connection to be established.

Hope it will work!

answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:29

nerdyDev

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Nikhil · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-26T08:58:20.690

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Since you are getting email from Google, it describes the email is trying to send but it is blocked by Google. Do the following steps.

I hope this helps.

edited Jul 26 '17 at 08:58

answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:31

Nikhil

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krishnakumar · Answer 5 · 2016-01-15T10:31:33.110

I think you have to enable POP and IMAP in you gamil. Try this

Sign in to Gmail
Click the gear in the top right.
Select Settings.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Select Enable IMAP.
Click Save Changes.

<?
$account="email_address@gmail.com";
$password="accountpassword";
$to="mail@subinsb.com";
$from="email_address@gmail.com";
$from_name="Name";
$msg="<strong>This is a bold text.</strong>"; // HTML message
$subject="Database Backup";
/*End Config*/

include("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth= true;
$mail->Port = 465; // Or 587
$mail->Username= $account;
$mail->Password= $password;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName= $from_name;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->addAddress($to);
if(!$mail->send()){
 echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}else{
 echo "E-Mail has been sent";
}
?>

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