SMTP Connect() failed. Message was not sent.Mailer

Question

Am trying to send mail to a gmail address but it keeps on getting this error "SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)SMTP Connect() failed. Message was not sent.Mailer error: SMTP Connect() failed." What could be the problem?

        require 'class.phpmailer.php'; // path to the PHPMailer class
        require 'class.smtp.php';

            $mail = new PHPMailer();


            $mail->IsSMTP();  // telling the class to use SMTP
            $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
            $mail->Mailer = "smtp";
            $mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
            $mail->Port = 587;
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
            $mail->Username = "[e-mail]"; // SMTP username
            $mail->Password = "mypasswword"; // SMTP password 
            $Mail->Priority = 1;

            $mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]","Name");
            $mail->SetFrom($visitor_email, $name);
            $mail->AddReplyTo($visitor_email,$name);

            $mail->Subject  = "Message from  Contact form";
            $mail->Body     = $user_message;
            $mail->WordWrap = 50;  

            if(!$mail->Send()) {
            echo 'Message was not sent.';
            echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
            } else {
            echo 'Message has been sent.';
            }

Answer 1

Remove or comment out the line-

$mail->IsSMTP();

And it will work for you.

I have checked and experimented many answers from different sites but haven't got any solution except the above solution.

Answer 2

To get it working, I had to go to myaccount.google.com -> "connected apps & sites", and turn "Allow less secure apps" to "ON" (near the bottom of the page).

Answer 3

Mailjet

SMTP SETTINGS

Port: 25 or 587 (some providers block port 25)

I work by changing the port after deploying the app to the server.

• In Debug it worked for me: $mail->Port = 25;
• In Release it worked for me: $mail->Port = 587;

GL

Answer 4

i've had this problem in tell i recive an email from google telling me that someone try to login to your account is it you and i answer yes then it start workin so if this is the case for you look in your email and allow the server

Answer 5

You must to have installed php_openssl.dll, if you use wampserver it's pretty easy, search and apply the extension for PHP.

In the example change this:

    //Set the hostname of the mail server
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';

    //Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission 465 ssl
    $mail->Port = 465;

    //Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

and then you recived an email from gmail talking about to enable the option to Less Safe Access Applications here https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

I recommend you change the password and encrypt it constantly

Answer 6

Are you running on Localhost? and have you edit the php.ini ?

If not yet, try this:
1. Open xampp->php->php.ini
2. Search for extension=php_openssl.dll
3. The initial will look like this ;extension=php_openssl.dll
4. Remove the ';' and it will look like this extension=php_openssl.dll
5. If you can't find the extension=php_openssl.dll, add this line extension=php_openssl.dll.
6. Then restart your Xampp.

Goodluck ;)