Solving PHPMailer and GMail connection failed issue

System Administration

Strange behaviour – it just stopped working 10 days ago and after a long search found a solution in specifying additional parameters in SSL connection, so working example should be like this: try { $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->SMTPDebug = 2; $mail->SMTPAuth = true; $mail->SMTPSecure = ‘ssl’; $mail->SMTPOptions = array ( ‘ssl’ => array ( ‘verify_peer’ => false, ‘verify_peer_name’ => false, ‘allow_self_signed’ => true ) ); $mail->Host = “smtp.gmail.com”; $mail->Port = 465; $mail->IsHTML(true); $mail->Username = GOOGLE_SMTP_USERNAME; $mail->Password = GOOGLE_SMTP_PASSWORD; $mail->SetFrom(SMTP_USERNAME); $mail->Subject = “Test”; $mail->Body = “hello”; $mail->AddAddress(YOUR_RECEIVING_EMAIL); if(!$mail->Send()) {…read more