Question

I am trying to use PHPMailer to send a gmail email. I followed this post

In order to do this, I set up a function shown below:

function sendEmail($email, $name) {
    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP
    //IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP I commented it cos it gives an error
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username = '[e-mail]'; // Changed my email
    $mail->Password = "password";// Changed my password
    $mail->From = '[e-mail]';
    $mail->FromName = 'FROM NAME';


    $mail->AddAddress($email);

    $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
    $mail->Subject = "Subject";
    $mail->Body = "Body";

    if (!$mail->Send()) {
        return false;
    } else {
        return true;
    }
}

Unfortunately, it keeps on returning false. Can you please tell me whats wrong with the code?

Edit: The error which I am getting is shown below:

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

UPDATED CODE:

 $Mail = new PHPMailer();
    $Mail->IsSMTP(); // Use SMTP
    $Mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // Sets SMTP server
    $Mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // 2 to enable SMTP debug information 
    $Mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE; // enable SMTP authentication
    $Mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; //Secure conection
    $Mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port
    $Mail->Username = EMAIL; // SMTP account username
    $Mail->Password = PASS; // SMTP account password
    $Mail->Priority = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
    $Mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
    $Mail->Encoding = '8bit';
    $Mail->Subject = 'SUB';
    $Mail->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n';
    $Mail->From = EMAIL;
    $Mail->FromName = 'FROM NAME';
    $Mail->WordWrap = 900; // RFC 2822 Compliant for Max 998 characters per line

    $Mail->AddAddress($email); // To:
    $Mail->isHTML(TRUE);
    $Mail->Body = "Hi";
    $Mail->AltBody = "Hi";
    $Mail->Send();
    $Mail->SmtpClose();

Answer 1

Here is a working example:

<?php
function SendMail( $ToEmail, $MessageHTML, $MessageTEXT ) {
  require_once ( 'class.phpmailer.php' ); // Add the path as appropriate
  $Mail = new PHPMailer();
  $Mail->IsSMTP(); // Use SMTP
  $Mail->Host        = "smtp.gmail.com"; // Sets SMTP server
  $Mail->SMTPDebug   = 2; // 2 to enable SMTP debug information
  $Mail->SMTPAuth    = TRUE; // enable SMTP authentication
  $Mail->SMTPSecure  = "tls"; //Secure conection
  $Mail->Port        = 587; // set the SMTP port
  $Mail->Username    = '[e-mail]'; // SMTP account username
  $Mail->Password    = 'MyGmailPassword'; // SMTP account password
  $Mail->Priority    = 1; // Highest priority - Email priority (1 = High, 3 = Normal, 5 = low)
  $Mail->CharSet     = 'UTF-8';
  $Mail->Encoding    = '8bit';
  $Mail->Subject     = 'Test Email Using Gmail';
  $Mail->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n';
  $Mail->From        = '[e-mail]';
  $Mail->FromName    = 'GMail Test';
  $Mail->WordWrap    = 900; // RFC 2822 Compliant for Max 998 characters per line

  $Mail->AddAddress( $ToEmail ); // To:
  $Mail->isHTML( TRUE );
  $Mail->Body    = $MessageHTML;
  $Mail->AltBody = $MessageTEXT;
  $Mail->Send();
  $Mail->SmtpClose();

  if ( $Mail->IsError() ) { // ADDED - This error checking was missing
    return FALSE;
  }
  else {
    return TRUE;
  }
}

$ToEmail = '[e-mail]';
$ToName  = 'Name';

$Send = SendMail( $ToEmail, $MessageHTML, $MessageTEXT );
if ( $Send ) {
  echo "<h2> Sent OK</h2>";
}
else {
  echo "<h2> ERROR</h2>";
}
die;
?>

I tried this script and had no problem sending several messages.

UPDATED:

This is the typical response from Gmail on success:

SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 mx.google.com ESMTP 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [181.155.13.39]
                     250-SIZE 35882577
                     250-8BITMIME
                     250-STARTTLS
                     250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [181.155.13.39]
                     250-SIZE 35882577
                     250-8BITMIME
                     250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2
                     250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.0 OK 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.5 OK 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Go ahead 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.0.0 OK 1353474062 20sm6345523qek.6
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:221 2.0.0 closing connection 20sm6345523qek.6